i was just thinking of it but do you think its possible to make a roller coaster out of a passenger car of some kind and a bunch of spare track? i mean of course if u put a eye hook and chain system with motor for the begenning lift chan catches hook and lifts car to top car then coasts around the entire track to the beginning
You might use G track but you’d have to cut between most or all of the ties and figure out how to jig and bend the sharp vertical curves and then fix the track with super elevation on your wooden coaster framing.
No, even a short coach will high-center or derail on any realistic coaster profile. If you could build the equivalent of a G-scale Oscar and Piker or Eggliner with four-wheel trucking, with magnetic-ball or similar multi-DOF couplings, it might track… but a real coaster train is many short cars swivel-jointed together with low center of gravity. The closest thing might be a Talgo train, but I don’t remember one being made in G; you might be able to use TurboTrain ‘pendulum suspension’ above single axles but the car body would have to be very short.
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