I do not have a layout right now, and my wife likes to see trains run from time to time. So, I have been collecting Kato Unitrack and occasionally set it up on the floor like a little kids and run some trains.
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I had no idea how much I had until today when I sorted it all out.
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I had no idea how much I had been buying. Is there a “Unitrack Anonymous” group I can join?
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-Kevin
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Try a Google search for Unitrack foum. There is info out there. I did not look very much after my search but go ahead and search.
Google has been my best friend for years. Almost too many links to remember now.
Rich
I think it probably ranks as a very modest ‘problem’ by comparison to many in the hobby. Relax. It’s all usable eventually.
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True… I just cannot believe how much there is of it.
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Maybe I will set it up on the floor tomorrow and see if it fills the whole house!
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-Kevin
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Recently a club member asked me if I had any extra track he could buy, so I did a count. Heck, I’ve only got about 200 pieces of flex track but I have none to spare! That is for a layout that is only 10’ x 24’. Why so much? Two helices! Half of that track is just for them!
Dave
Kevin - the only known cure for having too much track is to build a layout!
From the photo, I dont think you have a problem yet. Youll need a lot more than that before you can call it a “problem” judging from other hobbyists and relatively speaking.[8-|]
Calm down Kevin, you’ll be fine. Your “stack-o-track” fails to compare with the boxes full of MTH RailKing Realtrax that I collected for my grandson’s layout, [:^)]. You know, just in case he wanted it bigger [:-^]
Mike.
Seems to me having too much track is way better than not having enough. To me it’s kind of like saying I have too much air or too much money. [:-^]
I believe you do have a serious problem - you seem to have only 1 left-hand switch while you have a number of right-hand switches. While this could work depending on your plans (say an industrial track where the industrial sidings are all on the right side of the main), I think most likely you need to purchase some more left-hand switches…
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Yeah, there is a 7:1 ratio there. Not sure how that happened.
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I think that last time I set it up I only had 3 turnouts.
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-Kevin
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As my wife from northern England would say, “thats nowt”.
If you can go around the living room a little more than once, you need more so you can go around the living room twice![swg]
Hey See You-
There is a Yahoo Users Group for Kato Unitrack. Its users can offer you advice and comfort for your malady. But be warned, most of their advice ends with a variation of the phrase, “Buy more stuff. That’ll make you feel better.”
By the way, I couldn’t help notice you don’t have any bridges. Kato makes some nice ones, you know. And you’re a little thin in the elevated track and structures department. Shall I send you a link? It might help.
Robert
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I know about the N scale bridges. My stuff is HO. Do they make HO scale bridges?
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-Kevin
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