Layout with HO Model Trains and Slot Cars

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  • Layout with HO Scale Model Trains and Slot Cars with my new Crown Vic Police Interceptors; I do not have the RR crossing in because rthat actually is sort of inconvenient after a while (had it before) Slot cars such as AFX, Tomy Super G, Tomy Turbo, Tyco-Mattell, Autoworld, AFX, Lifelike slot cars, and AFX Lifelike track and Parma controllers. I got this stuff from
    Train engines shown were from Trainworld New York NY
    Slot Cars & Slot Car Track from Scale Auto Redmond WA

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  • @DavidRLentz-b7i
    @DavidRLentz-b7i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    David R Lentz, USA
    Whoever built this, my hearty congratulations: not only cars and trains in motion, but all the background--trees, buildings, etc.--adds a rich verisimilitude rare in this hobby of longstanding.

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for your comment.

    • @DavidRLentz-b7i
      @DavidRLentz-b7i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lakesuperiorvideos
      David R Lentz, USA
      You're welcome. I hope you are doing such dioramas for a living, earning a salary commensurate to your extraordinary skills. You are good enough to be building them for motion picture shoots!

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks again for your comments and reply. I am having fun and always trying to improve, experiment and innovate.

  • @cynthialuvlight2480
    @cynthialuvlight2480 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Damn!, that's as cool as all get out!!! Thanks for sharing, love it!👍👍💓💓

  • @stanharman9846
    @stanharman9846 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a bunch of aurora slot car stuff from the 60s. With 3 railroad crossing. I haven't had them up in awhile, but they bring back great memories.

  • @gacj2010
    @gacj2010 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great seeing cars and trains together ....Wish they made cars as small to scale then road and trains would be perfect realistic ...But I loved it

  • @dadnyfur
    @dadnyfur 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nicely done. I tried this years ago, and it was not easy to do, I used the Aurora T-Jets cars & trucks. My solution years later (after I sold all of my slot cars) was to make some radio control vehicles in HO scale. They can drive on any surface road I put on my layout without getting power from the road, it just takes a lot more skill to drive them.

  • @zaga416
    @zaga416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really like this thanks for sharing 👍

  • @TrainTsarFun
    @TrainTsarFun 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice layout

  • @spencerkane1182
    @spencerkane1182 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Me and my dad do this all the time

  • @kevinlilly7406
    @kevinlilly7406 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really nice video. Brings back memories for me.

  • @mrearlygold
    @mrearlygold 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh boy that's great!

  • @haydendraycott7897
    @haydendraycott7897 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great job pulling this off! I'd love to have a layout with slot cars at some point but I'd probably paint the slot track the same color as the other roads.

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, some ar concrdete painted and some I have are "blacktop" or asphalt

  • @Petemonster62
    @Petemonster62 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For a slower speed, you could try a power supply for the slot cars that has a voltage lower than the 12 volts that is typically used for HO slot cars. When HO slot cars debuted in the early 1960s, there were models made for racing and for operating automobiles on an HO train layout. The old Aurora terminal tracks had 4 terminals so you could wire the track for 2-way traffic. The chassis were originally sized to fit an HO (1/87th scale) sedan body. Later, the racing operation became more popular and race cars are smaller than sedans. So that is how the 1/64th scale race car came about - to fit on that same size chassis. Lionel had a line of both HO and 1/32 scale slot cars in the 1960s. Lionel even offered a road/rail crossing for O27 gauge trains and 1/32 scale slot cars!

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you very much for your comment. I have planned to do as you advised, to get 2 variable voltage separate transformers. I do wish the HO cars were real 1/87th.

  • @theBSisreal
    @theBSisreal 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice layout.

  • @jweinrub
    @jweinrub 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was pretty neat!

  • @islebuythat
    @islebuythat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great layout

  • @michaelwashington2682
    @michaelwashington2682 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very neat 👍

  • @static45a2
    @static45a2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Houston Rush HR ,lol

  • @EllotusFreeholy
    @EllotusFreeholy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow that's a long train ~ I kept wondering 'how much more can there be?'

  • @fiavautrain5950
    @fiavautrain5950 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great layout! How big is it?

  • @manickreations
    @manickreations 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i always thought the afx slot cars would be to big for HO model trains, i wanna go the same route and wanted to make it look as good as yours :)

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They are too big, but they have entertained for many years

    • @csi1392
      @csi1392 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      S SCALE IS THE SAME 1/64 AS SLOT CARS

  • @MrMarshall7491
    @MrMarshall7491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is it possible to gear the cars down so they go closer to a scale speed and it is less a speedway. I love what owner did though.

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for your comment. I would like to find out how to do that. I am looking into it.

  • @FatboyinPa
    @FatboyinPa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice layout! Love the U.P. consist! Any way to reverse the polarity of the slot cars so one can travel the opposite direction of the other?

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think it could be done, but the kids want to race

  • @umbertolima
    @umbertolima 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is there a way to make the cars move slowly? Great work!

  • @ickleshouse
    @ickleshouse 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nice layout. What make are the buildings you used, I have my base (8ft x4ft) and plan for a basic double oval train track , inner and outer, with the slot cars going around it. Would like a crossing but I gather there can be issues.. also what make are the cars?.

  • @jazzynet1
    @jazzynet1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wait a minute, that is ho scale trains, but aren't those ho cars too? you said slot? or you meant ho scale?

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They call the slot cars HO gauge because the track contacts are spaced in HO gauge. The slot cars are 1/64 scale, HO is 1/87 scale.

  • @prabalsharma6190
    @prabalsharma6190 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The speed of the slot cars is unrealistic for model trains.
    They should have scale speed.

    • @lakesuperiorvideos
      @lakesuperiorvideos  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is correct, I wish they would do scale speed, not 200 mph

  • @lakesuperiorvideos
    @lakesuperiorvideos  11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In this video mostly AFX Tomy
    look up scaleauto for cars list
    also autoworld slot cars
    like from Lukcy Bob's slot cars (look it up, since no links ar eallowed in replies)

  • @lakesuperiorvideos
    @lakesuperiorvideos  11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    used ot have crossing\still do but l left it out this time

  • @NordikFilm
    @NordikFilm 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What scale are the cars ? 1:64 ?

  • @chuckunlisted7001
    @chuckunlisted7001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What scale size are the slot cars?