@ADCX Rob posted:Am sorry to say, but this thread seems to highlight some serious shortcomings in FasTrack performance, of which I have not yet experienced in the many layouts I have built going back to at least 2008. It appears that maybe the track is not made as well as it used to be.
Original Poster GG14449: I cannot believe what I’ve just read through in this thread about the problems you’ve had with your Lionel Fastrack. Not to mention the tedious and time-consuming solutions suggested which may or may not correct the problem(s).
I’m with Rob. I laid my Fastrack down once when the layout was first built just before Christmas, 2011, and have NEVER had any problems with it, including loose connections. One of the reasons I went with Fastrack over 10 years ago was that the sections lock tight together.
It sounds like you have either put the sections together and taken them apart so many times, that they have become very loose. Or, that the newer Fastrack is not made as well now as Rob suggests.
If you’re going to continue putting the sections together, then taking them apart repeatedly, then I would just switch to Lionel’s regular O gauge track.
