does anyone know this; there are the train tracks in the silver mine shootout from the lone ranger, and then there are the tracks in the temple of doom set, are these two tracks in these two sets by chance the same size, even though one is straight and the other ramped and curved, and in that case could you combine these two sets?

Silver mine shootout: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=79110-1

Temple of Doom: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=7199-1

The answer is no; the silver mine shootout uses normal track, Temple of doom uses narrow track.

danke

Well, the Silver Mine has two kinds of track: narrow gauge and standard gauge.

The standard gauge track won't work. However the narrow gauge one consists of two rails but together, the same way as the blue and grey track from the first Lego trains.

With leaving a rather small gap you definitely could make a loop ore more.

thank you

Here's one way to make the joint from curve to straight,

thank you, this is very helpful

Here is an answer to an embeded track custom-made ad-oc.

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=84126

On the following links, you can find in which sets they have used the narrow track

narrow curve : http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=85976&in=S

narrow ramp : http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=85977&in=S

for the straight narrow sections TLC uses : http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=3228c&in=S

In the silver mine they use the normal train track http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2865 as a base for a straight narrow track.

Seeing the pictures of the narrow curved track, I think they can be connected with their connection points to a normal track, but the the track will be offset ofcourse