I went to micro mark and bought test stand rollers(enough to do my longest loco) and use just a short piece of track now and let the loco ride on the rollers. They work great and if you buy them in kit form you pay half of what it is if they build them. It took me 2 hours to build about 8 of them.( small screws and washers wreaked havoc one sunday morning.)
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
My "test" track is built on a 4'X4' 1/2 sheet of plywood. It has a circle of track and nothing else. I use it to test and run in locomotives. When I'm done, I store it on edge against the wall.
It also doubles as a programming track until I get one on the layout.
73
Bruce in the Peg
You might want bumpers at each end to prevent stuff from rolling/running off the end onto the floor. I have a home made coupler height gauge on one end of my test track.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Possibly stupid question here, but I've got several fairly expensive HO locomotives that I don't want to fry in case I goof up.
Basically, I just want a straight line test track to test the loco performance (not for DCC programming). Since the track won't be making a complete circuit, are there any wiring considerations I need to take into account?
Thanks in advance,
DM