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[Vay Jonynas]

The San Diego YMCA in the latter part of the 1960's:

 

 

[Zippity]

Edited: Missing photo from Post #12

 

 

 

[Bill from NH]

That photo has only been missing for nine years.   

[Vay Jonynas]

It's a nice one from New Zealand though! Not quite enough to make me pull up stakes and move but still....

 

[Zippity]

That photo has only been missing for nine years.   

 

But I only checked this thread, yesterday

 

The "Kiwi" Blue has gone and has been replaced with this Janis Nabokins 8 laner

 

[Vay Jonynas]

Even better!

 

[hiline2]

[Vay Jonynas]

Wow! How many feet is that White Lightning track?

[jtveg]

Wow! How many feet is that White Lightning track?

From the video description:

This was the 2nd largest commercial 1/24th scale slot car track in the world, and the largest in the USA measuring over 240 ft in length. This track was located at Centereach Miniature Speedway on Long Island, New York in the early 1990's.

[don.siegel]

When you're talking about longest commercial tracks, look at these: 

http://slotblog.net/...ane-track-ever/

 

Don 

[Vay Jonynas]

I really like this Strombecket track design:

 

It's basically a couple of figure 8's with one looped over the other to create a hill climb. Has anyone raced upon a big wooden track with a similar configuration?

 

[Vay Jonynas]

For decades I've thought that a crossover on a slot car track would automatically turn the outside lane into the inside lane and vice versa. That's what I thought the geometry of crossovers dictated. But today I found two counter examples of slot car set layouts issued by Lionel in the 1960's:

 

 

The outside lane stays as the outside lane despite the crossovers in both cases.   It seems that my understanding of geometry isn't as good as I thought. It's not that simple.