After purchasing loader and car figured out that they were not made for fastrack! Any easy solution?
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Not sure about "easy", but my understanding is that you may need to cut away part of the Fastrack roadbed in order to get it close enough to work properly. Others may have a better solution.
I would replace a couple sections of your fast track with either 0 or 0-27 and tie it back in with two fast track adapter pieces.
Most post-war operating accessories will not work with Fastrack.
jim sutter posted:I would replace a couple sections of your fast track with either 0 or 0-27 and tie it back in with two fast track adapter pieces.
Agreed that this could work. The barrel loader spans two sections of 10" O track so you would have to factor that (and the adapter pieces) into your overall spacing.
Edit: The FasTrak adapter sections are item # 6-12040. Looks like they go for about 8 bucks.
Dremel out part of the roadbed...
There used to be Fastrack operating sections that had removable ballast profiles on either side. My youngest son used one of these about 8-10 years ago to enable using a Postwar milk car.
I’m not sure if these are still being made or how readily available they might be but; you might want to check with several Forum sponsors before resorting to using a Dremel.
Curt
