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Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod
Date: 
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:07:53 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Matthew Crandall wrote:
  
Therefore, I’d like to see the new plastic track work with the old plastic track, at least. That way, I could seriously extend my layout. If nothing else, make an adapter track from one type of track to another. I haven’t checked for compatability, but it doesn’t look like it’ll mate based on what I have seen from the new plastic track boxes.

It’s possible you could get reasonable running by butting them up against one another, but no, they’re not really designed to click together. If you ask Ondrew nicely, he may be able to come up with a nice adapter solution though.

ROSCO

while the distance between the rails is identical the depth of the rail is not. unfortunetly this lets 4.5v trains run on 9v track but not the other way around because 9v train wheels have a longer flange depth..

I haven’t had any problems running the new IR freight train on my old blue track. Even going through points went okay.

Niels



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  Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains
 
(...) I also had no problems running a train when I metalized some 4.5v track using some thin metal tape. (URL) But this did increase the hieght of the rail by a samll amount. I picked up ~500 peices of lt bley straight 4.5v style plastic track (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)

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  Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains
 
(...) while the distance between the rails is identical the depth of the rail is not. unfortunetly this lets 4.5v trains run on 9v track but not the other way around because 9v train wheels have a longer flange depth.. ondrew (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)

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