Options for track expansion. Which way should I go?

feeds@yuku.com (Manshow) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:08:17 GMT

I have two options. I am adding the 4x4 table on the bottom right, which I know looks odd there, but that's where it will go, with a little spacer to join the new with the old. All Carrera track.

I can go with option A, which is mostly 2/30 curves, or option B, which has 4/15s between the straights and on the infield. With option A, I get a longer back stretch by about 2 straights. With option B, I get a shorter straight, but I can carry more speed through the corner. So...

SCRATCHBUILT TV TOWER

feeds@yuku.com (mark belles) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:54:33 GMT

after many modifications and paint jobs this is what i came up with

Tracker 2000 help needed

feeds@yuku.com (oldstromguy) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:13:59 GMT

I've used Tracker 2000 for several years, and have many hundreds of layouts designed.
Many of those use custom parts that I defined.

So now I have a new laptop, and need to move the parts definition file from one machine to the other.

I can't see how to export the definition file from the old machine, or how to import it to the new one.

Can anyne provide me detailed, step by step, instructions on how to do this?

thanks in advance,
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New Table for Track Layout...Advice ppreciated

feeds@yuku.com (Griff) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:46:28 GMT

In the nest few weeeks I plan to build a new and some what larcer Carear Layout. In the house I lived in in the past I used a combination of folding 8 ft. tables, 2 x 4 x 12's on top of the tablets the I used large sheets of Melamine shelving material for the top and covered the Melamine with some of the grass type carpet sold at Lowes. This provided me with an 11 x 14 ft. table surface on which I had a 50 plus ft track layout. Main problem when using a larege rectangler or square surface...

Smith-Cropper Bridge

feeds@yuku.com (ddyke) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:18:13 GMT

I am making a prototype of a wooden bridge. I decided to name sections of my track after the racers who have had problems in that area. Well Smith and Cropper hate this one section of my track, so I made it worse. First I cut the center of a piece of Scaley track out and left the rails.

Then I made a center section out of pine and popsicle sticks.

Valley Bend Raceway - the saga begins......

feeds@yuku.com (Team Conseco) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:14:10 GMT

I have embarked on the building of a 2 lane HO scale track. The track will be rather small, fitting in a 30" by 96" area. This will be a pretty simple track for my sons and I to enjoy. No serious racing here.

I do have some model railroading in my background so I plan to add some simple scenery to spice it up a touch.

I'll try to get a track plan to post. I designed the track in tracker 2000, but don't have it as a picture to post.

Here are...

My Monza Layout (photo intensive)

feeds@yuku.com (biedmatt) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:25:05 GMT

My Monza Layout. I built it winter of 2008 and ran it for a year before adding the scenery. My main interest is in the racing, but I added the scenery because it seemed like fun and would provide spectators with something more than just cars circling a track. The layout depicts Monza as rebuilt in 1955 with the (improved) high speed banking. This 10Km layout was used off and on by F1 from 1955 to 1961 and 1000Km endurace races to 1969. The oval still exists but is in an advanced...

Fly / GB Track Pit Walls???

feeds@yuku.com (Griff) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:32:48 GMT

Anyone know where I might could purchase @ 6 of these for my layout??

diamond Odyssey raceways makeover

feeds@yuku.com (alchemylive) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:53:56 GMT

This has been an awesome year for racing, and I got into building tracks and more tracks and I ran out of room. so I decided to rearrange things and clean things up .....

heres what the room looked like at first

and then i had this bad idea about putting tracks under other tracks? thats not going to work lol!!!!!

New HO build Bachman Canyon Raceway

feeds@yuku.com (RickBac) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:30:14 GMT

emergency vehicle lights

feeds@yuku.com (PCdocDE) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:41:12 GMT

Looking to have some emergency vehicles with flashing lights on my track layout. Has anyone done this ? Would like to use small LED's , but how to I get them to flash on and off ?

Ectafoam (sp?) for Use in "Counter-Sinking" Plastic Track??

feeds@yuku.com (Griff) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:27:02 GMT

A few months back someone mentioned they purchased a product called "Ectafoam" (or something like that) to use on to of their track table so that when they build the layout on top of the foam product they could then cut completely around on both the inside & outside of the track layout. Once this is done, layout is removed & then reinstalled lying in the cut out region which made the track surface level even with the foam covering to obtain a flat/level track to ground...

AND SO IT HAS BEGUN....Track Down & Light Up

feeds@yuku.com (legionofone) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:38:45 GMT

NOTICE AS OF 9/2/09

Well, I'm posting my progress on Cincy Slot Rods site, HRW and SCI combined.
I decided that's just too much to do.
So, going forward all my track updates and ramblings will be on my LEGION REGION
blog I've been getting together the past couple of days.

Here's the link

Source for 1/32 Scale Rollback Car Haulers???

feeds@yuku.com (Griff) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:34:02 GMT

I have been trying to find a source for purchasing a couple of 1/32 diecast Rollback Car Haulers to use at various points around my track layouts. So far no luck. I purchased a couple of the RMS car carriers a couple of years back but right after I received them my wife & I seperated (after 25 years) & she still has most all of my slot stuff in "protective custody". Can't say I blame her.

Landscaping Help

feeds@yuku.com (xert82) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:03:35 GMT

Hello Everyone, Here is my first serious 1/32 layout. It is Artin track using an Trakmate power supply and driver stations. There are two 4'x8' tables placed on the ends of a 5'4"x12 table to form a "C". As you can see the track did not fit together quite as the program indicated but I am pleased with the outcome. I think I will name it the Sooner State Speedway. I intend to add inside turn borders and borders on both sides of the straights as I find them...

Track Layout help

feeds@yuku.com (VenturaAlfa) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:09:53 GMT

Somebody had posted a site awhile back that had the both various types of track and different designs based on size. It was a great site and now I can't locate it. anybody have the URL? I have revell track and want to check the site again. thanks for the help
Ventura Alfa

paper buildings

feeds@yuku.com (ra7c7er) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:38:24 GMT

I have found a few paper buildings around the internet and thought I would share them. If you know of some you can list them here to. All of these links are in foreign languages but the downloads are pdfs. it might take a few tries at folding but it shouldn't be to hard to put them together without instructions

Carrera4fun - click on GEBÄUDE &...

1:32 Diecast and or Plastic Car Haulers???

feeds@yuku.com (Griff) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:52:52 GMT

Anyone got a source for both the modern day 18 wheel NASCAR haulers and older type short track (Got RMS Resins hauler...GREAT!!) haulers either in diecast or plastic? Want to use them around my track for sceanry.

photo at top

feeds@yuku.com (Little Bro Racing) — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:01:37 GMT

I just got to say that photo at the top is beyond spectacular!! Can someone refresh my memory, under which forum did I see this stunning layout??? Thanks Tim

4-lane equal-length oval?

feeds@yuku.com (red73mustang) — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:52:00 GMT

This may have come up before and I have in fact seen it done with Atlas plastic H.O. track, but has anyone built a plastic or routed an equal lane length track that forces all 4 cars to run in each different lane if 4 cross overs were used on different sections? This would probably be easier if on a routed track as well. I managed to find a link for a the Atlas one.

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