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At the request of Guy, I am starting a new thread on my HO scale slot cars.
We moved to our new house in November of 2015, which meant I had demolished my 10 year project of my first slot car layout, Brooklands Speedway. That layout had it's own page on my website at www.reesed.com/speedway/index.htm. When we moved, the newer home had an unfinished basement, and no emergency egress. I could not build in the basement without the egress, and living in a 55+ community, I had to go through several boards, and help design the specs for future egresses being added to the homes. But that is a whole other story.
Finally we remodeled the basement including my slot car room to build a new Brooklands Speedway. I had only saved one table from the old layout which was about 4' x 7' and was the city section with junctions and intersections. I had converted the old manual junctions to use model railroad switch motors and had wired a panel for changing which way the switches would work, so I just refused to have to do all that again. In January I got the lumber and started to build the tables. For the speedway, the main table is 15' x 4' and there are two side tables of 4' x 4'. I added about 3' x 3' to the end of the city table. The speedway is four lanes, and the city is two lanes. I have now wired the speedway section with 4 drivers' stations along the 15' side, and a second station for the read lane across the track. The computer timing for all four lanes counts laps, and times to one-thousandth of a second. I have started pulling out the old buildings that I had saved, and have started once again to build scenery, as can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/brooklands/sets/72157674994622193. I have a long way to go building scenery, adding many structures, painting all the track and smoothing some of the track joints, and much more. My first project is an HO trolley that will go from the edge of the town, around the elevated section of the town, and end up at the amusement park. I have acquired an electronic board that is supposed to make the trolley go back and forth automatically but will stop at each station for a passengers to get on and off.
The slot car track is mostly old Atlas and Lionel track, and much of the city is old Aurora Model Motoring track, with some Atlas and Lionel thrown in. One of the rarer bits of track is the pair of Lionel "mystery track" which uses pieces shaped like a pinball flipper that allows the car when to go to different lanes. I have these on the edge of the city going to three roads outside the town.
Although this layout is all HO Scale the cars end up being between 1:87 and 1:64. I also have some 1:48, 1:32 and 1:24 slot cars on display in a display case that shows part of my collection at America On Wheels transportation museum in Allentown PA, where I host an annual slot car day. This years's Eddie Sachs Memorial Slot Car Day is again sponsored by Eddie Sachs III. There will be several slot car races in the museum's theater, vendors in our art gallery, and an HO drag strip available for patrons to race for free. The information is available at americaonwheels.org/eddie-sachs-memorial-slot-car-day/. The winner of each of the Eddie Sachs Memorial races in the past is Henry Harnish, who won the very first Ford-Aurora Grand National in 1962, and is still racing these little cars. He has a great site of his own at henryharnish.com which shows his experiences with Sir Stirling Moss as the race grand marshall.
This is the latest HO slot car I have added to my collection for the museum display. It is a 1970 Pontiac Trans Am as raced by Jerry Titus.
We moved to our new house in November of 2015, which meant I had demolished my 10 year project of my first slot car layout, Brooklands Speedway. That layout had it's own page on my website at www.reesed.com/speedway/index.htm. When we moved, the newer home had an unfinished basement, and no emergency egress. I could not build in the basement without the egress, and living in a 55+ community, I had to go through several boards, and help design the specs for future egresses being added to the homes. But that is a whole other story.
Finally we remodeled the basement including my slot car room to build a new Brooklands Speedway. I had only saved one table from the old layout which was about 4' x 7' and was the city section with junctions and intersections. I had converted the old manual junctions to use model railroad switch motors and had wired a panel for changing which way the switches would work, so I just refused to have to do all that again. In January I got the lumber and started to build the tables. For the speedway, the main table is 15' x 4' and there are two side tables of 4' x 4'. I added about 3' x 3' to the end of the city table. The speedway is four lanes, and the city is two lanes. I have now wired the speedway section with 4 drivers' stations along the 15' side, and a second station for the read lane across the track. The computer timing for all four lanes counts laps, and times to one-thousandth of a second. I have started pulling out the old buildings that I had saved, and have started once again to build scenery, as can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/brooklands/sets/72157674994622193. I have a long way to go building scenery, adding many structures, painting all the track and smoothing some of the track joints, and much more. My first project is an HO trolley that will go from the edge of the town, around the elevated section of the town, and end up at the amusement park. I have acquired an electronic board that is supposed to make the trolley go back and forth automatically but will stop at each station for a passengers to get on and off.
The slot car track is mostly old Atlas and Lionel track, and much of the city is old Aurora Model Motoring track, with some Atlas and Lionel thrown in. One of the rarer bits of track is the pair of Lionel "mystery track" which uses pieces shaped like a pinball flipper that allows the car when to go to different lanes. I have these on the edge of the city going to three roads outside the town.
Although this layout is all HO Scale the cars end up being between 1:87 and 1:64. I also have some 1:48, 1:32 and 1:24 slot cars on display in a display case that shows part of my collection at America On Wheels transportation museum in Allentown PA, where I host an annual slot car day. This years's Eddie Sachs Memorial Slot Car Day is again sponsored by Eddie Sachs III. There will be several slot car races in the museum's theater, vendors in our art gallery, and an HO drag strip available for patrons to race for free. The information is available at americaonwheels.org/eddie-sachs-memorial-slot-car-day/. The winner of each of the Eddie Sachs Memorial races in the past is Henry Harnish, who won the very first Ford-Aurora Grand National in 1962, and is still racing these little cars. He has a great site of his own at henryharnish.com which shows his experiences with Sir Stirling Moss as the race grand marshall.
This is the latest HO slot car I have added to my collection for the museum display. It is a 1970 Pontiac Trans Am as raced by Jerry Titus.
