@Zildjianmeister68 posted:VC,
I have the same set! Did yours come with the Wheaties box car? Mine did. I believe my set is the '71 version. Great set. I am sort of in the same situation as you. A little different. The tubular track I have is beat up pretty badly and beyond restoration so I'm going with the FastTrack. I brought my engine to a local shop and couldn't believe it ran after 40+ years of sitting in storage.
@SteveH I noticed there were terminal terminal connections under the fasttrack as well. I thought the the separate terminal track is the correct one for using a transformer no? #612016
I haven't purchased any track yet as I'm still trying to plan out how much track to buy. There's some old school accessories I have like a train station and a whistle button/tower I'm trying to figure out how to connect prior to setting up.
Z
Cool! I actually got mine for Christmas when I was a kid, but I don't have a wheaties car, so it might have been a year or two later than yours. My cars are a shell oil tanker, white Motorcraft boxcar, a green open car that held yellow cylinders which i believe were for shipping milk, a blue open one that i think was for gravel, and a red log carrier (for which I've lost the logs and stakes that came with it). And of course a yellow caboose. I took mine to a local service guy before trying it and he made a few small repairs to the locomotive and coal tender (probably did the foam replacement that @KOOLjock1 mentioned since i haven't had any problems with it), and it's been running well ever since. The 50 year old incandescent headlight even still works, which I find mind boggling. The horn and choo-choo sound work too. They really built these things to last.
