Rail joiner
Side screw
Aluminum rail joiners
Drawings for rail joiners used on Mill Creek Central Railroad.
Formed rail joiner
Rail joiners are often used in pairs.
Track insulators laser-cut from acrylic. Photo by Scott Sumner.
Laser cut acrylic insulators installed at the Annetta Valley & Western Railroad. Photo by Scott Sumner.
Spall
Ed Spall, a member first of the [[Los Angeles Live Steamers], and subsequently of the Sacramento Valley Live Steamers, developed an alternative method for joining track in the early 1990's.The Spall Rail Joiner is essentially a scaled up HO track joiner that is four inches long and slips around the foot and up the web of the rail. [[Train Mountain] has done the tool and die work to produce these joiners in quantity. They have been in use since 1992 as a part of the Train Mountain Track System and on tracks all over the country, with excellent results.
