Roller Coaster

Just some of my regular track work. 

Yes, we do at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in St. Paul. MN:

http://www.tcmrm.org/visit/exh.../toy-train-division/

 

Peter

River City 3 Railers does as well. Keeping everything clean and lubricated can be a booger. Check out our website for pics...

 

COASTER DYNAMIX

TCMRM's train and coaster can be seen in action here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fTlWSml3o

It's called our "Amusement Park" layout.

 

Peter

We had one built for us 13 years ago and we used it for 3 years it was a monster to keep it going. The gentleman who built it for us lived in CA and he even drove it to us in Baltimore. He posted photos of it as he built and it took him 6 months to construct. He constructed it out of balsa wood and he constructed the cars from scratch using HO trucks. We wanted it to be 3' x 8' but we found out that wood in CA is bigger then here on the east coast, he constructed it on a 4' x 8' plywood and when he set it up it was 8'3" long.

 

A few years ago it to Coaster Dynamix and we now operate one of their coasters.

 

Dang! That is one FAST ride.

Here are some of the construction photos that I found, he took these for us as he built it.

 

Well, it sure was pretty cool to look at.  Took a lot of effort and precision to build something like that.  Whatever happened to it?

Wow.  Really cool!

WOW !! Love it, the detail, the banked curves are the best I've ever seen. I'd like to ride that for real. Was it based on a real coaster?

The owners of Coaster Dynamix have it now and it is storage after talking to them at this last York. 

It was based on one but I can not recall where I want to say one in Texas.

Hi Bob:

 

I was going to post that somebody has them in their booth at York and I see from the recent other postings the name of the company is Coaster Dynamix.

 

Meanwhile, how about an O gauge model of a double-track coaster like the Racer at Kennywood?

 

Bill 

Wow Paul!!!!!

 

That is some class act piece of work.

 

it is in storage       What a shame.

 

Larry

I have one

Looks nice Mike, does it operate?

Problem with working coasters is getting scale speed. At the speed I see them run all your 1/48 scale people would die! 

An idea method would be the coaster 'train' be powered much like a slot car. And power could be varied so it would run at realistic speed and change speeds. I'll build one in my spare time!!! 

Oh it works great, and it's a lot of fun for the kids. They all seem to love it. I don't know where those videos are but I'll see if I can find them. Don't listen to the train nerds about scale speeds they don't know what they're talking about

No knock on your EXTREMELY nice coaster (with an equal cost I bet)

But being a coaster enthusiast almost as long as a model railroader, if I build one...it will be different, not better, than others I've seen.   

Matt, are those Lionel and Lemax rides?  Looks great!

Those are Lionel and LeMax and the coaster is a Coaster Dynamix prebuilt model cost something like $1050 delivered. The carnival was a bit of an after thought do I needed to add a level.

Phil Haile in Chalfont,PA has one.  He has an open house every year during the holidays.

 

 

As Tom said, we have one at our modular set-ups......Coaster Dynamix came to Richmond in January 2011 to demonstrate their products in January 2011. Ben, one of our modular group members, was in the market for a coaster...

 

They set up in his kitchen. Here are the pics....Ben eventually bought both types....The large one will eventually be on his home layout....the smaller one he brings to our set-ups.

 

 

 

 

Peter

They have one at the Carnegie Science Center. I'm pretty sure it's scratch built...

I'll have to get down there to take a look.  Thanks for posting Keith.

Thanks.  I like it!

This is a really bad quality picture that I posted a long time ago when I had my old camera, but the roller coaster is near the top right of the picture.

The Crescent Model Railroaders (now defunct) used to have a carnival with a Disney roller coaster.  Opposite problem from Coaster Dynamix, the Disney version uses battery powered cars that maintain the same slow speed throughout; kids still liked it.  Here's a link to an old video (sorry about the quality)

I have the HO comet, but it has never worked properly stalls out most trips.

Size fits with lots of the model circus rides. Not to big for the space available.

 

http://www.knex.com/products/toy-roller-coasters/

 

If you check out the link above the K'Nex roller coasters are easy to build and work very well. A local chain of stores had some on sale I picked up a couple of different types they were about 2/3 off the list price very good deal.

 

They do not look as good as the wood ones in posts above but it works really well and you can adjust change track design easy for better operation.

Had one running for a  weekend event for several hours each day with no problems 1 set of batteries worked well. For a kids display at shows it works well gets a lot of attention.

 

 

This video gives a nice overview of Ben's carnival on our modular layout......this is when he still used the large coaster for the display.

 

It also highlights double-headed y6bs (Premier & RailKing).....and, it shows you what a beast Lionel's c-420s from 2002-03 are as a single unit pulls my Juice Train without effort.

 

I would say this video is 2012....

 

 

Peter