Your Home Analog Track has How Many Lanes?

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Charles R

Discussion Starter · 3 mo ago

Wondering how many lanes others are running. Technically I have six although I only run four of them as I use the outer lanes as shoulders. Previously I had four and ran the inner two, again the outer lanes were shoulders. It's been little over a month and I had my reservations but I'm sold. It certainly restricts what I can design/fit on my tables which scared me a bit. Although I ended up with a nice mix of sweeping and technical sectors.

Typically I run alone outside of the occasional entertaining where a guest or two will turn a few laps seeing how quickly they can fly off the table. On the surface having more than one lane seems rather silly since only one car is running. However I find each lane to be a different experience, add in running in both directions and it feels like I don't know the layout. On my other layouts within the same number of laps I felt like I got what I could out of the layout and I knew the course. The cars could vary the experience but the layout itself was a known entity.

As I see it I have eight layouts... four lanes and two directions. I typically have two configured in one direction and two in the opposite direction. All eight still feel unknown to a large degree. No way am I able to turn the fastest possible lap. That's way down the road and with the each session's variety I hardly ever turn on my lap timer. Far too soon to see what I can do... I'm still learning.

So as crazy as it sounds I'll gladly take the restrictions that come with multi-lanes and enjoy my eight layouts.

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tlbrace

· #2 · 3 mo ago (Edited)

My last was, and future will be, 3 lane plastic.

I used dead strips, which had to be wired the opposite of how the track was wired, so reversing direction for the layout would’ve been problematic. I suppose I could’ve flipped around the dead strip section when changing direction.

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Roguejackal

· #3 · 3 mo ago

"Orwell Park' is a 2 lane Policar track which I generally lap clockwise and on the lane that takes 'The Devils Elbow' on the inside lane mostly.
I to can run in the opposite direction and it is totally differant for both lanes so I do consider I have four circuits as I have the Policar borders on nearly all of my corners and home made ones on any others.
I also have running amongst 'Orwell Park' on one half of my table a short rally track made from Scalextric classic track that I've taken some of away when I was building some scenery for the main Policar circuit. I do aim to get this back together at some stage as I do like a rally circuit as well, this has a small section of two lanes with a single crossover so two laps to compleat the whole of 'Pipers Vale' rally stage 1. I also previously had this reversible. So two rally circuits.
The other part of the hobby for me is the scenery and lately I have been doing this when I can instead of laps, I'm now starting to miss the laps so I may have a good tidy up at the weekend so I can at least have a couple of hhours trying out some of the new cars.

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Charles R

Discussion Starter · #4 · 3 mo ago

Roguejackal said:
I to can run in the opposite direction and it is totally differant for both lanes so I do consider I have four circuits as I have the Policar borders on nearly all of my corners and home made ones on any others.

I was too lazy to wire both directions on my previous layout. Perhaps if I had I'd still have it... who knows! Although most of the layout would have driven roughly the same regardless of direction. As simple as my layout is I'm surprised by how much I enjoy switching directions within the same session. It really does keep things fresh.

The other part of the hobby for me is the scenery and lately I have been doing this when I can instead of laps, I'm now starting to miss the laps so I may have a good tidy up at the weekend so I can at least have a couple of hhours trying out some of the new cars.

I marvel at some of the scenery featured here although I tend to lean towards the commercial vibe look. Somewhat because I have zero talent in that area and they are slot cars (to me) not a miniature raceway/town/whatnot. I keep looking for a few things to throw on the table to make it look not so empty however so far I'm striking out rather badly with just some filler.

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Nolakers

· #5 · 3 mo ago

Hovsta Ring was originally going to be a three lane track, which changed in to a two lane digital. After second to no progress for a long time, i scrapped the digital part, since we are almost always only two racing.

Still only half a routed track, but at least there are plans to finish it this year.

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Charles R

Discussion Starter · #6 · 3 mo ago

tlbrace said:
My last was, and future will be, 3 lane plastic.

I really like the three lanes. It takes it away from the "home layout" look and feel as does the driver's stations.

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eAddict

· #7 · 3 mo ago

I have a 4 lane 78' scalextric track.

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mattbslotracer

· #8 · 3 mo ago

4 lanes routed wood. Appx. 70 foot per lane. 4-7 racers every week. Rotate thru all lanes. Voltage controls on each lane so there is no "fastest" lane. Takes work and effort to get a group of racers but it is much better than running alone.

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rastas

· #9 · 3 mo ago

I have a two lane Scalextric sports track but only use one lane with borders and corner X overs which keeps the cars running the inside lane keeping enough room for 1/24 cars that I like to run!
Cheers
John.

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beardy56

· #10 · 3 mo ago

Policar with Ninco rally loops at each end, which are really in the middle, to make it a single lane layout. If the Policar digital lane changers appear before I get around to routing a track I will get one, and rig as a crossover and remove the loops as quite a few of my cars aren't liked by the loops. Which everway I go it will still be one lane as there's only me and I don't see the point of wasting track that can be run on.

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Charles R

Discussion Starter · #11 · 3 mo ago

As most of my polls here the number of responses are far too low to draw any real conclusions however I'm seeing more four lanes than I would have expected and not any six lanes (beyond mine which I run four). I was hoping for some eight lanes...

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Tissthemix

· #12 · 2 mo ago

My track is a Ninco fuor lane

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Charles R

Discussion Starter · #13 · 2 mo ago

Tissthemix said:
My track is a Ninco fuor lane

Wow... that looks like an entire village. Great to see another four lane layout. Still can't believe six lanes haven't shown up yet. Heck I only run four of them but there has to be a few... even eight! Mine looks so bare compared to the above it's embarrassing.

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