Zip-Zaps,Remote control miniture cars in HO Scale from Radio Shack?

[Anonymous]

Saw these at my local radio shack yesterday, They look close to HO, Which means that you could drive around a remote control car on roadways in HO Scale. Many HO roads are corkbed and a surface would have tobe custom.
The next think here might be working timed traffic lights. It would be great to get a bunch of these and drive them up into a Autorack train. Matter of fact I remember seeing a layout were a guy put slotcars driven up into a autorack train

[cheese3]

They are cool the only problem is they are 2 speeds...really fast and stopped. I am sure they could be modified though.

[dinwitty]

I have the Trucks roadway system, slotcars with trucks and you had loads and dumping, I had an idea for them to run trailers up onto flatcars.

naw, getting too toylike. I am into railroading, not trucking.
There is a roadway system that uses a magnetic wire in the road to steer the battery powered cars.

Battery powered steerable cars is an idea I would work out to make a trolleybus system..
But if I were to have a trollybus system, then really, I would put in a streetcar instead.

[orsonroy]

I wonder if the drive and radio receiver (the guts of these toy cars) could be kitbashed into a R/C diesel, or at least a doodlebug or galloping goose?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy

I wonder if the drive and radio receiver (the guts of these toy cars) could be kitbashed into a R/C diesel, or at least a doodlebug or galloping goose?

I'm expecting battery technology to evolve to the point where a re-chargeable battery, the size of a scale-model diesel fuel tank, could power a loco for a few hours. [Decoders would need to be made R/C compatible of course.] Then worrying about having perfectly-clean track will become a thing of the past...

[rrinker]

We could do that today, if we still power the track and have a small recharger circuit built-in. Reverse loops? Just don't power them. Track gets dirty? Not a problem. The battery will run the loco but where it DOES get track contact it will recharge the battery
If I ever put some G scale up outdoors, I think this is the approach I would take. R/C operatio, but the track would still have power to extend the run time of the batteries.

--Randy

[Anonymous]

This would mean that it would not take a eletrical genuis to run a model railroad.
I quit my club because they had too many dead spots and no one knew who was around to fix them

[Anonymous]

I've got a zip-zaps car, the only problem with it is that the antennae is way out of scale. However, since it is a piece of wire, it can be tucked inside the vehicle. This shortens the range of how far away you can be, but it works. The slot cars idea is great.

[dknelson]

They are bigger than HO for sure
AS a joke we snuck one onto a friend's layout in his intermodal facility and had a trailer mounted on the auto. When we knew he was looking in the area somebody made the trailer move - a bit too fast and jerky but it was good for a laugh.
Dave Nelson

[Anonymous]

It would great if somebody could down-gear one of those things and kitbash a critter....![:D]

[Anonymous]

I think they are 1:64 Scale or S scale, they wouldnt be that noticeable

DRew