More different Unitrack peaces

EMDBUDD Aug 20, 2008

  1. NorsemanJack

    NorsemanJack TrainBoard Member

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    Yeah, but you're an artist and I'm an engineer. :) If I were working with Unitrack on the floor, I would have the longest, straightest double oval I could have.

    Besides, I'm gonna guess that photo is capturing a trial set-up of a permanent layout - not something someone in Japan would set up every so often to run trains. The tape was my first (and only) clue.....
     
  2. Charlie Vlk

    Charlie Vlk February 5, 2023 In Memoriam

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    UNITRACK is a product made for the Japanese. All the new pieces made in the last decade have been targeted for that market.
    When I started at Kato all the Kato USA employees were asked to write up a proposal for development of the UNITRACK line. I included:
    Flextrack (with handmade working samples)
    Code 55 track system with North American tie spacing
    NTRAK Curve radii and 1 1/2" track spaced turnouts
    request for re-engineered lower cost turnouts and #4s that work as well as the #6s

    That was in 1993.

    Atlas has a chance to make a market with their new roadbed track system...

    Charlie Vlk
     
  3. Calzephyr

    Calzephyr TrainBoard Supporter

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    I wonder if Atlas' venture into the hallowed ground of Kato Unitracks market will spawn a redevelopment of the Kato track to the specs Charlie called for in 1993? Would Kato do such a thing?

    I'm not prepared to ditch the hundreds of Unitrack sectional track I have for the Atlas Tru-Track primerily because the Atlas product doesn't have the variety yet... and there is no guarantee that it will ever be expanded anywhere near the level of Unitrack.

    I will admit... that if I were starting from scratch... I'd be more inclined to buy the Atlas Tru-Track and bank on variety growing to become similar to the present day Unitrack offerings. But... If Kato suddenly began to offer Unitrack with American tie spacing and code 55 (done like Peco does) which can be mixed with their current Code 80 Unitrack... I might begin a conversion to the Americanized Unitrack.
     
  4. Mark Watson

    Mark Watson TrainBoard Member

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    Can I ask how you had this working? :)
     
  5. SimRacin14

    SimRacin14 TrainBoard Member

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    Looks interesting. I'm using unitrack myself and I'm stuck on what to do with a 10'2 by 10'9 by 7'3(gotta remember the doorway) area I could use for a model railroad layout. Do you happen to have a track plan for that floor layout?
     
  6. Delamaize

    Delamaize TrainBoard Member

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    All your base are belong to us, for ultimate justice launch every zig!
    :devil:
     
  7. Mark Watson

    Mark Watson TrainBoard Member

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    Yeah...
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    Thats all I have on file. The rest was playing with the pieces by hand.
     

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