I am sure this has been discussed before, but does anyone have advice, suggestions, and/or pictures of Fastrack being joined to Atlas O flextrack? I am looking to perform this task and I thought there would be someone here who has done it. Does Atlas make a transition piece to Fastrack?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
dennis
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Dennis...you can use the Fastrack transition piece (6-12040) and purchase Atlas-O transition joiners to mate Atlas-O with Fastrack. Maybe someone can provide pictures for you.
Rick
From the Atlas Website
6095 transition to pins. Picture below.
6096 transition to Gargraves. Picture below.
You can transition to Gargraves and Ross using the standard Atlas track connectors with some modification. The lower profile of the Gargraves track has to be removed.
Gargraves left/Atlas right
you may have to shim the height of the track as well. Some use cork road bed.
I am not sure if transition pins of the tubular track to atlas will work. Plus they have a bad habit of breaking at the joint when assembling and disassembling.
I know there is a transition roadbed piece from fastrack to tubular like mentioned aboved, than you could use the atlas to tubular transition joiners.
I agree with J Daddy. The available transition pins are flimsy. The dremel modification/standard Atlas joiner, worked just as well when transitioning to Gargraves or Ross. IMO.
Yes it seems so backwards... go from fastrack to tubular to atlas... I think to cut the whole process the question becomes, can you modify the profile of rail on the fastrack end piece to emulate a profile that looks similar to gargraves, then use mikes trick above to join the atlas to this new transition piece.
Is it possible, using the Fastrack transition pieces, to then have a 027 tubular track layout and incorporate Fastrack switches into the layout? If so, would the Fastrack switches be track or direct powered? Has anyone had experience with this and what success have you had? Would appreciate any information that can be shared...
Yes it is. The O27 tubular pins plug right into the Fastrack transition piece. The switches can still be track powered.
Rick
PDQMI,
If you are a good enough engineer you can rework the track join to accommodate most anything, however your 027 track and your FasTrack are actually not the same size and will need some leveling to make it work. Your FT Switches are low voltage and will run off track power once you have them set up & transitioned into correctly, the FT Command Control switches work quite well from track power alone, I have mine set up via DCS block method power wise, no 027 stuff however in my FT layouts.
PCRR/Dave
Rixter,
Real nice job, especially on the bridge!
PCRR/Dave
Will this work with the Atlas Turntable?
If you can match the railhead height and create a flat butt end, why do they have to be connected? That's what power feeds do.
I found it to be cumbersome with the transition piece, not just hooking it all up but dealing with various sizes where once you had some nice long straights. In the end i sold off the fastrack. Not quite learning my lesson ive mixed atlas ross and gargraves. Having done this and as much as i like the atlas... it is essier to stick the two "pin in rail" systems together than joiner.
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