Track Survey

[Northwoods Flyer]

FasTrack with 048 curves.

vintage Gilbert S gauge track and switches

vintage Lionel and American Flyer O gauge track and switches

vintage American Flyer Wide Gauge track

 

Northwoods Flyer

[RockIsland52]

Like DougM:  Lionel O27 tubular with O27 curves," ......we band of brothers."

[traindaddy1]

Great!     A nice variety so far.   Thanks for responding.

[PereMarquette1225]

Here's my story:

Started with Gilbert American Flyer original track

Then Gargraves S with Flyer switches

Then Gargraves O Phantom - temporary while I decided on an O layout

Now (and hopefully finally) Atlas O 21st Century - which I'm in the process of building!!

One more change and my wife will kill me.

P.S.  We use the FasTrack that came with the Polar Express around the CHRISTmas tree.

[MichRR714]

 3 Levels of Fastrack

[metalfrog]

 upper level loop of lionel tubular with 43r.

the main railroad is mth realtrax unfortunately.

lot of money tied up in it but thinking about

switching to fastrack.

 

terry.......

[O3siggah]

 O tubular, K-line 072 switches, 022 modified (cut),

Gerry

[Garfield]

 K Line SuperSnap O31

[cnw1995]

And here I thought I was the only one using O-27 tubular with 0-27 curves. How encouraging!

[joetrains]

O gauge tubular.    

[baberuth73]

027 tubular

[brianel027]

I don't really know that one track system is so much better than the others. But what I do know is you have to live within your means and learn to be content with that. And that includes buying trains.

I not only use Lionel 027 track, but am actually quite content and happy with it too! I use Lionel 027 of postwar and modern vintage. I sometimes wish K-Line had put more effort on the low end and had come out with those revised 027 switches years sooner... if they had, I'd probably be using those instead.

[Train-O]

I've used Lionel '027' & 'O' gauges, but for Christmas of '07 our daughter and her family ordered from Santa the Lionel "North Pole Central Lines Christmas Set" for me and it came with FasTrack.

From now on I'll be buying and using FasTrack, as Pall Mall's slogan said; "You Can Light Either End."

With FasTrack you can use either end. 

Ralph 

[ACF1001]

My outer loop uses Lionel Fastrack. The inner track is MTH Realtrax along with Lionel STD O operating tracks. 

[wyomingscout]

Lionel totally tubular, totally 027.

[crip]

FASTRACK WITH O36 CURVES

[LawsonFarmsRR]

 I see I am in the minority, but ATLAS O all the way - And I love it!

Patrick

[Buckeye Riveter]

Unfortunately I used MTH REALTRAX

Never again!!!

(If you are new to the forum, please use the search engine to find my past posts about MTH REALTRAX.)

[lionelsoni]

O27 (with O27, O34, O42, O54, and O71 curves)

[magicman710]

Previously ScaleTrax, now Atlas 21st Century Track.

[Chessie3566]

O27

[kehoesj]

O27 Tubular for the 10 x 10 layout, circa 1986.  Fastrack for the Loop around the Christmas tree.

[jwse30]

O27 tubular with K-Line switches. Curves are 27", 34", or 42" on my permanent layout.

Fastrack for under the tree last Christmas. Had 2 starter sets worth of track and used most of it. Curves were o36. Last year was the first year I had a train under the tree since I was a kid. I wonder why I waited so long?

 

J White

 

[BMRR]

Lionel FasTrack with 0-48 curves.

[dsmith]

Lionel 027 tubular

[lynbrookyankee]

Tubular 0 but I just bought my first Fastrack to use around the Christmas tree.

[rha90272]

 Just switched from O-31 tubular to Lionel Fastrack with O-48 minimum curves, and some O-60.

[marxalot]

Gargraves phantom tin plate with Ross turnouts.

[runtime]

90% Lionel 031 tubular (8-022 switches,5 more pending), 5% Lionel 072 (1-072 switch pending, 5% Gargraves (1-98"R switch, 1 pending).

[rickoshay]

Lionel 027 tubular and 1122 switches.