Lionel Fastrack

Teeth?

Metal connectors on the ends

@rscott posted:

Hello everyone,

I have more than 9 30 inch straight sections of fastrack that has various teeth missing/broken. Is there a technique for fixing them enough to use on my layout? I would like to reclaim them instead of throwing them away.   

Easy, solder feeder wires to the folded tabs of the track rails on the bottom side of the track.

For my fastrack layouts I solder wires to connect every 4 track sections together and then drop a feeder. 4 works out to be reasonable to handle and you could modify that number depending on your situation- example 4 72 in curve pieces VS 3 30 in straights from a handling perspective.

Apparently, a couple years ago, there was a run of fastrack with brittle pins.  Anyway, here are the part numbers from the Lionel site if these are what you are talking about.

Brendan