If you got some buddies who would be more into this sort of thing, you could
have a operating session. With the railcrossing added, time road freight with
trucks could be done. Rules of distance, destination, and time (speed) would
need to be applied. All of course to meet the demands of the RAILROAD.
Just a thought. [2c]
Tyco still lists the slot car and HO Train track. Part number TYC 6727 9" Road-N-HO Train Rail (1 piece) . About $13. Available at several places on the Internet.
therios,
are you refering to the garden layout at the LA county fair by any chance?
Some years ago I saw a letter in Circle Track magazine where a guy sent in
a picture of his HO race track. It was a scratch-made 3-lane oval with winged
Sprint cars on it…and train track next to the back straight.[:D]
Yes, it’s too bad slot car scales aren’t the same as train scales, although I think
Motorific stuff is about O scale.
Now, that old Tyco electric trucking stuff might look close to HO. The trucks used
a chassis similar to the HO race cars, so they were proportionatly smaller than the
race cars. This would also work in with trackside industries, IF you can find the
stuff.
Do some searches on slot cars. You’ll find lots of stuff, sometimes it seems like
more than what you find on trains!
BTW: Scalexctric and Carrera now have DCC slot cars (1/32 scale).
I am looking for a slot car switchtrack in O and HO scale
Slot cars would be great to model a Piggyback yard with lift…
FALLER made something like that:
more pics and it’s for sale at :
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=30676&item=3759994153&rd=1&tc=photo
That was my plan back in the late 70’s to mid 80"s of colleting TYCO trains, US Trucking and some of the slot car sets. Then combining them all into one big set-up, so that way several peeps could play along. It still is, since I have been able to hold on to all that stuff, without it getting lost or sold off. Sooooo, someday in the future it will happen. However, I still have way to much to learn, before I can even think about that…
I still have the Aurora Thunderjet 500 slot car set from the 1960s that I used with my trains when I was a kid. We built a slot car track and added a small oval for the train. It was very apparent back then that cars lose to trains in ties at railroad crossings. The cars go flying and the train keeps on going.
In college, we had a four-lane slot car track in the dorm. Most of the guys were electrical engineering students. One guy had a Tyco that must have gone 1000 scale miles per hour, but it was either ON or OFF and he could never make the curves. My Aurora car had a wide wheelbase with big fat rubber tires that I did rubbing alcohol burnouts with before flying down the track. For two laps those tires were attached to the roadbed, with no fishtailing on curves regardless of speed! Boy, that was fun.
Oops, this is a model trains site. Sorry for the diversion.
Mark C.
I have been working on a track design to incorporate both slot car and HO train in a single layout. I have most of the parts that I need (except DC power and proper controllers and more cars for the train) - and I have laid out various portions of it test the design - currently don’t have enought space to set it up. I have posted a jpg of the design at http://homepage.mac.com/mattwolanski/SlotCarTrack.jpg (if you get an error message try hiting enter to reload the page) that shows the slot car track - have not yet added the train to that layout - I am using a program for track layout http://www.railmodeller.com in which I had to design my own track parts. I will post updates as they are available. The train design will have an outer loop and an inner dual loops with switches connecting everythign together. The jpg above shows in white where the cars cross the train. I also plan to get a tiny wireless camera to make video from on board the train.
I’ve had several, all toy class. The first one was basically a shared board where the slot cars just looped through the town’s main street inside of the railroad loop. That was the closest to a free way.
All the others were spagetti as I tried to fit as much track (car and train) into a small space. On one layout I actually had 11/16 smiles of slot car track that crossed the railroad twice. It worked well. I had another on a 4x8 sheet of plywood where the car loop was too short. The cars even at the slowest speed could make their loop before the train cleared the crossing. The funnest ones were those just assembled on the floor for a one time use. Four or six lanes of cars for the train to try to hit.
The rules were the locomotive driver switched to the car he was able to blamm off the track. If a car driver ran into the side of a train they had to give up their car.
Most fun I’ve ever had. The Model Motoring collectors will cringe as I relate the original 1964 Mustang Convertible and Batmobile flying off the edge of the board after being booted by the Athearn F7.
I still have all that equipment but haven’t set it up for several years. I believe the last time was my son’s 14th birthday.
yes:
1/32 Marklin garden line 1/32 slot cars. However, the final layout will only have a slot car race track, the vehicles designed for road use are radio controlled.
Man, those 1:32 cars together with 1:32 trains look so good!
It will not look very much to scale, Modern “HO” slotcars are more like 1/64 and the variety of cars is pretty poor. If you use old tjet type cars, those are in the range of 1 /80th to 1/72nd scale. Some of the rights to old Aurora T-jet stuff was bought and is being produced by a new company based in Californai the company is MODEL MOTORING. They list the train crossing as being released in the near future. You can also find them on ebay.
Aurora first came out with the AC powered vibrator chassis cars in 1960 and initially they were marketed as a compliment to train sets. Aurora realized shortly after that it was the racing aspect that would drive the product line and the early tie to being a train set acessory went away.
I have never operated the slot track/train crossing piece so I have no idea how smoothly they work.
“Has anyone here ever put a Slot Car raceway on there layout to create a Freeway.”
Yes, I did, about 40 years ago…