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After looking at 1000s of track designs I have chosen this one with some mods to meet my available stash of Artin track (though I may need some more straights). I have named it Rattlesnake Hill as a tribute to Jim Hall's legendary test track here in Texas and it resembling a bundle of snakes.



The design is based on Scaley bits but is adaptable with perhaps decreasing the length of one straight piece.

There are 3 planned elevations with sloping connected roadways from the base level to a 2", 4", and 6" height at the nested 180 degree turn, where each roadway goes one direction, then the other as it traverses the hill.

The track will be wired for ac2car, allowing for two cars running in each slot, racing hare and hound style until the leader deslots (no lane changers in Phase 1).

The track will be built on an approx 6'x12-16' foam board table, suitably supported/framed under the underneath/edges, etc. I would like to create an exterior "rotissery" frame on industrial caster wheels, like the old portable school chalkboards, to allow rotating it vertically for efficient storage in my garage, and transportation in a ramped enclosed trailer at an angle within the trailer.

Not much area for landscaping but this is phase 1. I do have an idea for perhaps creating a pit area and pit wall along the longest outside straight by adding a couple of straights at the turn apex on either end of the track. I envision something like the rudimentary pits and a low pit wall like at Daytona in the early 60's.


I know... no pics...didn't happen...to be continued.

Fixed the image.

Thanks Harry. I had tried to attach it unsuccessfully, so I just put in the url link.

Should be an interesting track....I am looking to watching the progress. Looks pretty fast and blip type driving.
Artin is nice track, it should serve you quite well. I used it until I went wood.

nice design of track :), for you info pit lane track and some specialized exist in Artin digipro :), i will follow what you came up with
Sylvain

Very efficient use of space. I’m sure you could find a spot for a tree or maybe 2. That’s going to be a fun track.

Lot of track in one space. Sometimes less is more.

Rough setup with elevations. With some help from other folk here at HRW will be adding some additional track for longer straights.

Approximately 90' lap length for 2 lane ac2car track (2 cars per lane) on a planned approximately 7'x20' table.

At the bottom of the track pic is the main 6" wide main straight. I was wondering if this could be replaced by a routed/copper taped 12' wide straight that includes the main two slots in the center as well as a passing lane slot on the outside of each of those lanes.

I could make a straight cut across the plastic track pieces going into and from the routed "drop-in" section so that the plastic cleanly butts up to the mdf section, with supporting lateral wooden pieces "shoe gooed" underneath the both the plastic and wood track sections and connected via holes drilled horizontally in the lateral pieces and dowels.

The custom diy lane change mechanism would be operated by a button switch wired into the driver station or controller with an indicator light showing the position of the lane change flipper.


Such a routed lane change drop in piece would allow an A AND a B car to be run in EACH of the two primary slots AND/OR the respective passing lane, for 4 cars total using ac2car wiring.

nice track, are you trying to make it digital? i saw somewhere somebody make Artin/carrera adaptor, you will get your lane change or can get Artin digipro, lane change, pit stop etc but the quality is not the same as Carrera track.

Sylvain

Sylvain:

It's hard enough to locate this much old Artin 1/32 analog track much less track down the necessary Artin Digi Pro bits to go true digital. I think I could possibly hack/graft a Scaley lane changer onto the Artin track given their similar widths, etc.

However, as I mentioned, I have decided to wire it ac2car style to control 2 cars independently in each slot using post WW2 train hobby AC power transformers.

That way I can run 4 cars on a two lane track. The outside mdf lane changers will add some flexibility.

If I wanted to get really crazy I could add an additional pair of copper tape conductors on the outside of the existing conductor rails with a modified guide and run 2 more cars in each slot using ac2car wiring for a total of 4 cars in EACH main and or passing slot lane, but first things first. I need to snag some more track bits, get the table design figured out, etc.