Hi all,
Can I use Lionel fast track with a 700e/769e Steamer and does it come in O72 track.
Tin
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FasTrack does come in O72 (and also O84 and soon to be O96).
I can't help with the specific engines in question though.
-Dave
Most everything made in O will operate on O72 curves. The 700e Hudson certainly will.
My initial answer would be, maybe.
Reason is, FasTrack is tubular track with an inverted U-shaped rail profile. The 700E Hudson (assuming that you mean the original prewar version) was originally designed to work with Lionel's T-rail track, whose rails have a T-shaped, more scale profile with a flat surface area. The prewar 700E has smaller wheel flanges on the engine & tender, making them O scale sized (not the oversized, "pizza cutter" type flanges on all mainstream O gauge locomotives & rolling stock), so the rounded railtops on FasTrack and regular tubular track could cause derailments, especially around curves.
If you have the original Lionel T-rail track, then it's recommended you use that. Otherwise, you should be able to use either Atlas O or MTH's ScaleTrax as they both have the same T-shaped rail profile. As to whether GarGraves or Ross track will work, that I couldn't say except they might; they have a T-shaped rail profile too but the rails on those two types do have a very slightly rounded rail top.
Thank you guys for all the info.
Tin
Good answer, John.
He re-built an original 700E.
Yes and it's pretty much done, it came out really nice still needs a set of wheels, while
the ones on there are okay some need to be replaced, it does run nice but I need track
and when I use it with my Gargarves it's real heavy around the turns and my track go
up and down a little from the weight of this big boy needs a board underneath to attach
the track or some of the newer track.
Tin
