Hello,
I have seen this on the forum before but couldn't find it. What kind of track is this? What is the benefit of it? I assume its for banking curves for high speed trains.
Is it used with O or 027?
Thanks
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Ives.
The slanted ties are for super elevated curves. Some modelers do this for prototypical operation. There was a company in Spain that made track similar to this, but it was two rail I believe.
Don
A lot of two rail track for clockwork trains was super-elevated.
Hard to justify "superelevated" track for straight sections, but I believe that ADCX Rob is right. Ives made that track.
Years ago on an old tinplate layout, somehow I picked up a bunch of that track and used it on a layout I built. Really couldn't notice any difference between that and the regular Lionel stuff. Now, when Am Flyer made their wider radius stuff, (think that it was about 36" or 40" in diameter) that did make the trains run/look better.
Paul Fischer
Originally Posted by fisch330:
Hard to justify "superelevated" track for straight sections,...
If you try to imagine including the detailed instructions on how to assemble "junior's" little electric train set and explaining the concept of unique transition pieces to go in & out of the banked turn sections, versus the flat sections, and in what order to put them together, it becomes very clear that it was much easier to make them all super-elevated.
That required no special attention or directions at all(as long as the track pins weren't moved around), and it was easier to sell more track at the hobby store.
