by waaytoomuchintothis » Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:43 pm
That was Larry, and yes that is his track (mine now) when it was almost new. Since I've had it, I rewired some of it, installed circuit breakers (he had fuses), re-routed part of it, run it in the opposite direction, added to the scenery, and retaped it as well as painting it with a mix of steel dust and black paint that was then lightly sanded to keep it from being abrasive to paint jobs on rolling cars. That's why it looks so much like asphalt paving. I'm not wrecking it, I'm just covering it up. I'm specifically arranging the bracing and forms so there is no appreciable damage. I'm even keeping the driver's stations, although they are unscrewed from the track and stored underneath, still wired up, though. The great thing is that the huge sweeper turn in my old track is on the new track, too. Larry is still around. He doesn't come to see us much anymore on the new site, but he's still running the best track I ever saw in his basement right where this one came from. That's Hellenbach Raceway, or something very close to that.