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 Posted - December 20 2006 : 7:54:31 PM
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I'm looking for a US-1 Truck set. I"m going to be building an HO train set and I want to add a slot track to it. Does anybody know where or how to get an older one or is there a newer one that I haven't seen yet.
Thanks in advance.
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 Posted - December 21 2006 : 08:16:33 AM
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To my knowledge nobody currently makes a combo-train/slot car set. Would guess Life-Like would be the only possible one to do so now, but again they don't offer one to my knowledge.
TYCO did have a gray US-1 Trucking rail-meets-road track piece. They also did the typical black slot car track with a section of HO-scale brass track crossing it.
Going further back, other companies did too...Aurora comes to mind. Surprisingly, I don't think Bachmann ever paired up its HO-scale trains with its early '70s slot cars.
Like most anything on the planet today...it's on eBay. I do see the single track pieces with the railroad crossing with some frequency. You'll find both the slot car and US-1 Trucking examples are in some demand and maybe won't come too cheap. US-1 Trucking in general is rather popular with collectors and causes the demand/prices to raise on it.
Good Luck...and when you build it...take some pics for us! [}:)]
Tony Cook
HO-Scale Trains Resource
http://ho-scaletrains.net
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Posted - April 19 2007 : 12:29:09 AM
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I thought I remember somewhere on the web, someone had schematics on how to basically *make* your own rail crossing for a slot car track (train crosses, cuts power to the slot car track and cars stop). Maybe someone here remembers seeing it. It's been awhile and at the time I hadn't been re-bitten by the model railroading bug so I never printed it out or bookmarked it.
If anyone has that section of slot car road, it would be interesting to see the underside on how they wired it.
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