that may of been who all I know it was in HO that was when I was like 9 and I'm about to turn 61
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rtraincollector Okay I didn't read every comment but I do remember back in mid 60's aurro or how ever you spell it had a track that ho trains could cross there race track...
Okay I didn't read every comment but I do remember back in mid 60's aurro or how ever you spell it had a track that ho trains could cross there race track...
There was a company called "Lionel" back in the 1960's that had the same set up with road/rail sets in their catalogs with the requisite grade crossing(s) for the slot cars.
Rob
Okay I didn't read every comment but I do remember back in mid 60's aurro or how ever you spell it had a track that ho trains could cross there race track as a friend had it on there layout. we use to see if we could beat the train at the crossing a lot of the time lol.
I have seen also where some use super streets for a section of track to go thru town for the train the go back to regular track and it looks realistic and nicely done.
BoydWow I started this thread 10+ years ago.
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Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
Many years ago, back in the 60's, Ideal Toy Co. made a line of slot cars called Motorific. These cars were 1:48 scale. You can find a few still on ebay. Since these cars and trucks were battery operated they wouldn't require special track. If you were handy with power tools you could cut grooves for the slot pins in the roadways of your layout with a power router.
I've been looking into this. They make a 1/43 scale slot car, pretty close in size and readily available. I'm also using Lego's for my buildings and people.
seacoast, I have H.O. race cars and know of two places in West Palm Beach FL that handle H.O. race cars, both cars and track. They are not dead, just overlooked alot of times, also new company is making the old Aurora style cars called Johnny Lightning, and a another new company bought out the rights for Model Motoring a.k.a. the old track style of Aurora H.O. race cars. Also one other company is making H.O. race cars, Life Like.
pbjwilson, I like your idea about using race cars from Walgreens for your layout, I did not think about that. Might be too late for this layout as I am very crowded for space right now. You might be able to buy a two train transformer in H.O. to control your race cars if they are D.C.
A quick note about Super Streets, I can run Lionel passenger cars # 6-15104(Reading company) & 6-7012(New York Central) on the small size curves, locomotive was the Plymouth switcher. Play around with Super Streets and your rolling stock and you may be surprized at what goes through the Super Street curves.
Lee F.
Superstreets is still the way I plan to go. Just for the fact that it's more to scale and you can run trolley's on it. I don't have enough room to make a real raceworthly track, and I have seen cars fly off and hit stuff constantly with the wrong driver, so real racetrack isn't ideal. I had a bunch of Carrara track in storage and thought I would try it. Superstreets finally was delivered to my LHS right before Christmas. That's probably where the next $100 goes...
Wes
I set up my older Carrara 1/32 set in a 6ft oval just to see how things looked. Things look ok with the 1/32 cars. The cars are around 5.5" inches long. The only problem is that I don't think there is a way to set them to run around the track at one voltage. I can't seem to hold the trigger at a voltage that the car goes around the track without slugging around the corners, or zooming in the straights. I think at a minimum, I would have to pull out all of the magnets inside the car to require less juice to move it, then I would probably need to chop off the plug on one of my extra controllers and mate it up to the output of a DC transformer from an HO or N guage set. That might work. There are 3 prongs on the controller, so I will need to investigate to see what that third one is for. All in all, since I own the sets already, they look ok. the 1/43 would look better. I don't know if you can get them to creep along the track, but they look OK sitting there.
Interesting topic... this Christmas my grandson got a Lionel NYC Freight set from me and a Carrera 1/43 slot car set from his uncle. We had the train set and the slot car setup together under the Christmas tree in the basement. He liked the train, but really liked the slot car set. We got both the Lionel set and the Carrera set at our local hobby store. Here is a link to one store on the internet that sells Carrera sets and separate items...
http://www.oakridgehobbies.com/slot_cars/carrera_pages/carrera_go_track.html
These Carrera (GO)1/43 cars really go fast, you cannot go around track with throttle full open or you leave the track. They also have a turbo button, we have not been able to use the turbo button because these cars go into orbit if you hit it. I have some pictures I will try to post later if I can get that feature to work. Did I mention that me and my 31 year old son also had a great time playing with this as well as my grandson. I had a Strombecker set when I was a kid and this Carrera seems to be as much fun. Hope this helps and a belated Merry Christmas to all.
I have a couple of 1/32 Carrara sets, and some extra pieces. The cars available for this size are just supurb. The Carrara track can also accept 1/24 cars. It's pretty big stuff and probably wouldn't look right next to my trains. Also, I don't know how slow you could continually make these things drive (compared to something like Kline streetscenes). I'm used to holding the throttle wide open, and eventually, I get a spinout or a car flying off the track. I wouldn't want to damage any scenicking that I did for the train part of the layout.
You are right, slot cars are a different kind of fun, and would grab the attention of most people more than the trains, but if you are looking for anything you can find to keep your kids attention so you can spend some good quality time with them, then this might be a good solution.
This idea got into my head when I went to Target. There is an SCX 1:43 slot car set on sale for $40-50. No, it won't cross the tracks, but it can go over or under the tracks with bridges and tresles. I just didn't like the car selection, and with Christmas (at that time) looming in my "rearview", I didn't look to see if there were any other selections. I MAY have to look again at the F1 cars, but there will be no RICERs on my layout!!
Just a thought...
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I found a 1/43 slot car set at Walgreens. I got it for my son for Christmas. It cost all of $9.99. I thought if it lasts through Christmas break it will be worth it. Actually I wondered if it was going to work at all for the price.
We set it up Christmas day and the set is really nice, but the contollers are junk. I am using a couple Bachmann starter set controllers to operate the cars.
But the cars and track are really nice quality. And they run really well using the Bachmann controllers.
Another nice thing is an oval of the slot car track fits right inside an oval of O-27 Lionel track.
The set is made by Artin. I looked on ebay and other cars are available. The two cars that came in my set are very generic modern sedans.
For $9.99, I think I will pick up another set. I think these could make an interesting city scene with having trains and cars running. No grade crossings but the trains could pass over the roadway on a bridge. Lots of possibilities.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by seacoast HO slot cars are a thing of the past.
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