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Re: Small Gauge Train Tracks ??
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Date: 
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:11:28 GMT
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Shaun Sullivan wrote:

Are there any commonly-used custom track styles that can accomodate the
small train wheels on a 4-stud-wide scale?  That is to say, if you have
the small train wheels mounted on a 2x2 plate w/ two axle posts off the
sides, what can you build to use for track?  I would like to make a
small equipment cart that follows rails, and while I have a number of
small train wheels and axles to pin them on, I have nothing for them to
run on right now.

The small wheels I'm talking about are the ones found in set #4541, the
Road-n-Rail Service Truck:

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/4541

Any thoughts or ideas?  I'm hoping there might be a universally used
method that works beautifully, but which I haven't stumbled on yet,
being rather new to all things train.   Thanks in advance ...

Shaun-

You can use the 4.5 volt track and it works rather nicely, although I'm
not sure if the curves work out correctly.


-John



shaun



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  Re: Small Gauge Train Tracks ??
 
(...) 4.5v track will work for straights, but the curves won't. I did experiment though with 12v track. By using the conductor rail, you can get a semi-workable narrow guage. The problem is that the conductor rails aren't quite centered on the stud (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)

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  Small Gauge Train Tracks ??
 
Are there any commonly-used custom track styles that can accomodate the small train wheels on a 4-stud-wide scale? That is to say, if you have the small train wheels mounted on a 2x2 plate w/ two axle posts off the sides, what can you build to use (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)

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