Looking for 027 New or Like New Track with Brown Ties

How much of it do they need?

 

Don i have 8 pieces of 027 track in O42 turns. I can let you all have its tranished a little but its new never have run train on it. 

Thanks Chessie but I should have said they only need strait. Sorry. Lionel Parts, I'm thinking eight or ten straits would be fine with what they have from the set. Don

No problem Don!!!! 

Why not buy some new track, brown ties is the way it is still made.  Maybe a hobby shop would donated for credit.

I've got a ton of those straights. Are you now a part of the production?

Jumijo, just helping out. Is your track like new? If you want to sell some write me. jrnyfilms@comcast.net 

Thanks Don

Got the track everyone. Thank you. Don

That’s great. Are they still looking towards using the Milwaukee Special? I love that set. But if they decide to silence the Mighty Sound of Steam. I would suggest replacing the Tender chassis with the Williams S-2 Tender equipped with a True Blast bell & whistle. In my opinion it’s the best sounding Steam whistle in the industry. Plus it would have the added benefit of creating the controversy the rivet counters crave and help keep the movie alive in the minds of us train geeks for decades to come. Of course this is just the humble opinion of a natural born antagonist who happens to be a train geek in his own mind.

 

I wonder if someone should explain to them how to drill holes in the fixed couplers of the passenger cars and and use staples to hold them together so they don't seperate during an inopportune moment in filming?

Matthew I found her a "back up" set almost new in the box. Just in case. Good idea about the couplers. Another forum member is supplying extra track. Turns out that set used the brown ties. The Christmas train will be in the open of the film. Thanks for the suggestions. Don

They all did(except for two SSS sets) after 1969 and up to FasTrack.

 

I am not sure where the cutoff was, but at least the 1970-1972 sets had actual wood grain litho on the ties, and had hollow/rolled track pins.

 

I really don't think that the ties would/could be spotted on the silver screen, though.

If you’re willing to work with the idiosyncrasies this is a great set. It takes a beating and keeps on running. I can attest to the staple trick working with the couplers. Unfortunately the video camera wasn’t running when my 3 year old nephew took over the controls and all the cars followed the engine over the edge. The kid in me always wanted to build up the courage to duplicate that stunt but the adult in me is pretty firm in saying NO. However if I was making a comedy motion picture and I had a couple backups…

 

Rob, I understan the track was made from 1970 to mid 1990s. This is from the MPC expert and ex Lionel working guy that's been helping. As for the shot, I don't know how they are going to shoot it but if they do closeups the track has to be the same. Remember the set was just opened for Christmas. Don

Well, the lithographed track was only made early - better check with your expert on that.  It was changed to plain brown from lithographed wood grain before 1980... I'm just not sure exactly when - it was close to 1973.   Later production plain brown tie track has a different pattern of screw holes too.

 

You would think this would be easy!

Honestly, for a couple of quick scenes in a movie, it's not going to be the least bit obvious or distracting if the O27 track is 100% "right" so long as it all matches.  As was noted in some earlier post, 99.99% of the audience who sees this film won't notice or care one bit, and that fraction of a percent (if even that) who may notice or care, really doesn't matter at all.