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Slot Cars & Model Train Layout: Chicago & North Western

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Model Railroad & Slot Car HO Racing Layout: Cars in video: Ford Crown Victoria Sherriff Patrol car (AFX Tomy Super G+ inline motor/drive.) vs. Cadillac 1959 Ambulance red/white (Auto World 4 Gear Ultra G). HO Scale Trains in video: Chicago and North Western (CNW) Life-like Proto E7 and E-8 (Rivarossi) EMD Diesel Locomotive Engines and nine CNW passenger cars (Walthers). These slot cars worked well and were fun to run around the track, they stayed on the track very well going quite fast in speed on the straightaway tracks. The cars had nice range of speeds on the Parma controllers, so they could be slow through the curves and also sprint on straightaways. The slot cars scraped by each other in the squeeze track and bumped each other a few times. In practice the Crown Vic had spun out on curves and did not get to use its speed advantage as much, so was driven more carefully or slower to avoid mishaps and keep from falling behind. Both cars have good down force to keep on road. They even held down banging through the squeeze track (compared to other cars). Video is not at all in order or continuous, with only one camera on tripod that was moved around to various view angles during the race and the clips were edited and intermingled. The on-board train segments were made with a GoPro camera lashed on a flat car. It is hard to "direct" this, to get drivers to pass by the train, to intersperse the front gopro and canon side views, and coordinate the audio, and due to gopro and canon mics are so different had to make a new audio track of train arrival. Then added in the furnace blower, due to it going on and off irks me, so I've made a continuous blower noise audio track. It is still double fun, running trains, racing cars and then making videos.

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