Moving Vehicles For Your Layout

[dougdagrump]

Not to long ago there was a post about incorporating "Hot Wheels" type tracks into your layout,
Check out what K-Line has on their website. [8D] Can't wait to see this in actual operation somewhere. [tup][tup][tup][tup]

[spankybird]

Too Bad the K-line web page is so very sloooooooow. It took over 2 minutes with DSL to load the page. I tried to download the first video and gave up after 3 minutes of waiting.

They really need to improve there web site.

[Anonymous]

I looked at the K-lines video's. They are something to behold. [^] They take me back to the old road and rail sets using slot cars, but i'm not really sure what I was looking at. Were there two different types of roadway? A slot type and a 2 rail trolley type, or were my eyes decieving me? Whatever they are, they looked good! [:D] Yes, the K-line site is slow! [V]

[cnw1995]

I've seen some model buses, fire engines and big rigs (from Japan) that can follow a track or wire on any sort of modelled road

[FJ and G]

Doug,

Yes, that is most realistic. I've seen an HO scale one, name is Fulda or something. The wire is burried under the ground and the cars and trucks move along at prototypical speeds, seemingly on their own. It's the most impressive I've ever seen and I was baffled at first how they do it.

IMO, one could reasonably model slot cars, transposing the racing cars for normal cars (unless racing cars are normal where you live). The roadbed could probably be painted to look more like asphalt and concrete, perhaps w/cracks & manhole covers.

Not much could be done about the tracks tho. For all that work, you could probably lay down some HO tracks in a street and put a truck or car body on an HO trolley or speeder to make it look like a car is moving down the road, just by chance going over some trolley tracks.

Or, the rails could be chemically blackened to match the asphalt color. IMO this would be pretty cool, but don't think anyone's ever tried it.

Dave Vergun