Narrow gauge track

[norm103]

Hello I looking at making a kid size wooded roller coster and I was wondering if anyone can shed light on if the narrow gauge hills would work for this. Can you have a car drop down a few of these stacked and then it.go back up one or two. If you all can help it be nice thanks. Norm

[Electricsteam]

Hello I looking at making a kid size wooded roller coster and I was wondering if anyone can shed light on if the narrow gauge hills would work for this. Can you have a car drop down a few of these stacked and then it.go back up one or two. If you all can help it be nice thanks. Norm

Human kid sized? O.o or Lego kid sized?

[norm103]

Lego kid size. Really what I'm asking is can you put more then one of these hills together and a train run smoth on them

[Crackerjack]

http://www.bricklink...tem.asp?P=85977 with this piece, No but with the new narrow gauge straight track coming with http://www.flickr.co...76155/lightbox/ if you attach them at whatever slope/angle you want then yes you can. Only downside is the train might fall of the tracks thanks to gravity.

Edit: Here's a better picture of the track

Edited February 16, 2013 by Crackerjack

[zephyr1934]

Sadly that looks to be standard gauge track with a pair of extra rails in the middle.

The good news is, they are both good track pieces all around.

Also interesting to see what looks to be 1x4 trans clear tiles in the set.

[brickie]

Hello Norm103,

Last year I made a mini coaster using the track from the Indiana Jones temple set.

I modified the car from that set to what I needed.

I found in playing with this, that when you put 2 of the 'drop' pieces together, the car would become airborne at the bottom.

After much experimentation, I found that it worked with a straight, curve and a drop, straight, curve and a drop pattern.

For the straights, I had a problem. On the ground it was easy to use 12V track and use 1x2 jumper plates to join them to the narrow tracks. Once you got up in the air, it was a difficult build as you needed additional support structure.

Whilst having a few drinks with a mate one night, he came up with a simple solution for a track that will clip onto the narrow gauge line; cut the plastic PF track.

AAArggghhhh! I hear you say. So did I at first until I tried it.

I cut out the centre 2 studs of a track and the joined them together with a 2x6 plate underneath and a 2x2 plate in the middle on top.

Unfortunately, my mutilation of track was not yet finished as I had to cut the little curvy clips where they join.

Once the 2 styles of track were joined together, instant coaster track.

WARNING The track you have just mutilated is now no good for any thing else.

I kept mine in case I build something similar this year.

I'll see if I can find some photos.