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Brooklands

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I keep adding details to my slot car layout. On my last trip to the UK I got an HO scale Triumph Stag which is parked near the movie theater. A friend gave me two rubber sharks and I was not interested in putting them in the swimming hole or the stream, so my 11 year old granddaughter decided we needed to use them in the amusement park section with a dunk tank named “Shark Tank”. I put them on the roof of the scratch built game structure so people can try to dunk a Mark Cuban impersonator. I recently made a new video of the layout, and now I am working on structures for the only completely vacant lot in the town.
 
Very nice!

Do you use a digital control on the cars, to allow you to run multiple cars on the same track? (Similar to model railroads??)
 
This is old school technology. The slot car track is plastic track made in the 1960’s, mostly by Atlas and Lionel, but some by Aurora. The Indy cars that were sitting on the track are very recent 3D printed ones, but the two that periodically drove through the town are also from that era. I know that digital technology is available in 1/32 scale, but no one has been offering it yet it 1/87 scale, and then the track would have to change.
Much of thee lighting in on the layout is LED, and more is now fiber optics, and the race track timing is infrared sensors triggering the software on a PC, but the program I have still runs on DOS.
 
great video and awesome sound track. I must confess as it began I thought I might see a film noir detective car chase. :D
 
Brooklands said:
I keep adding details to my slot car layout. On my last trip to the UK I got an HO scale Triumph Stag which is parked near the movie theater. A friend gave me two rubber sharks and I was not interested in putting them in the swimming hole or the stream, so my 11 year old granddaughter decided we needed to use them in the amusement park section with a dunk tank named “Shark Tank”. I put them on the roof of the scratch built game structure so people can try to dunk a Mark Cuban impersonator. I recently made a new video of the layout, and now I am working on structures for the only completely vacant lot in the town.
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What kind of train does Santa play with?

HO HO HO Gauge.
(I’ll show myself out)
 
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