Will MTH passenger cars run on O-36 FasTrack?

I'd like to hear the answer on that as well.

I have a loop of 048 Fastrack with a couple of 036 curves mixed in on the floor right now, and I'm running an MTH Premier Amtrak Superliner set on it. These cars are about 18" long, and other than looking a bit awkward going around the tighter curves these cars have no problem negotiating them.

Geno

MTH used to list there earlier 60 ft passenger cars as 027 but I never tried running mine on 027 but they will run on 031 but look out of place on the sharp curves. 60 ft should be ok on the 036 curve but I doubt if the 70 ft cars will. 

Just hide the curve behind Scenery!

Run 'em like ya stole 'em 

Honestly, all my passenger stuff is Steam era w a few oddball Railking streamliners, they run fine on everything but O-27 (which they might run on, I don't have any)

OK, I'll try to stick to either the 60 foot cars or anything explicitly listed as O-36 or smaller.  That at least gives me some room and I'm not planning on doing anything more modern than around an E-3 engine (not sure yet if I want steam or early diesel) so I think it will work out.

A 14 to 15 inch passenger car might make it through the 036 fastrac curves, but not anything much larger like 18 or 21 inch Atlas passenger cars. Another thing that I have found to be true from experiance with larger passenger cars, you may need a larger engine to run with them because of derailments, coupler to coupler end-play has to be considered. Example is a 21 inch passenger car will not make it through the 042 curves with a GP-30, makes through 042 curves with an SD-40 without derailments.

Lee F.

Short answer: Railking - yes.  So stick with the Yellow Boxes!

Ed

The 60 ft cars including the aluminum were made to run on 031 but will look awkward due to overhang but you will be fine to run them on 036.

Ed is right, Railking is OK.  I have 3 MTH 64' woodside passenger cars(premier) and they will NOT run on anything less than 042!  I know, I tried them on 031 and they jump the track.  

I run a 7 car set of RK 60' streamlines on my O36 Fastrack layout without a single problem, they just look a little strange on those sharp curves.

I don't have any MTH passenger cars, but I have a set of WBB 18" passenger cars that are rated for O-42 curves. Although I don't make a habit of running them on O-36, on the occasions when I have run them on O-36 they performed beautifully, being either pushed or pulled through the curves without incident.

Sometimes its not the curves that cause problems. Obstacles like switch motors get in the way. For example if I run my MTH Premier AC4400 diesel (O42 recommended curves) on O31 Lionel tubular curves, it seems to run fine until I cross over an O31 switch (Lionel model O22). Midway though the switch the AC4400's fuel tank hits the switch motor. The switch motor could be swapped from the inside of the switch to the outside to fix this problem.