Charger vs El Camino Racing around Great Northern Railway

Model Railroad & Slot Car HO Racing Layout: Slot Cars in video: Chevrolet El Camino white Auto World Thunderjet vs. Dodge Charger blue Michigan State Police Auto World Xtraction. HO Scale Trains in video: Great Northern EMD SDP40 diesel locomotive engines (Athearn) and eight Great Northern passenger cars (Walthers). The Chevy El Camino and the Dodge Chassis are new self-built Auto World Deluxe Pit kits that had to be assembled. The Dodge was painted and decorated by Auto World, the El Camino was self-painted. The slot cars worked well with no glitches noted so far 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. We do more like "road rally" than race, like the rally races that go the speed limit and winning is to stay on road, not go off and hit the wall or worse, go on the floor. Slot Car Track layout has been engineered to keep cars rolling. Track sections have jumper soldered wiring. Also feed wires go to several of these jumper wires. 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. Also 4X8 blue styrofoam sheets are moved around to screen out basement stuff especially during on board train video. Various lights were moved around as well. Postproduction also involves masking, screening, and framing. That has been my intention to make videos featuring the trains, slot cars scenery and structures without distractions, such as light fixtures, ceiling, windows, furnace, water heater, basement stuff and giant people and fingers appearing in videos.

[@shiftintohigh5564]

Love the launch! The Aurora track markings look great. The train always is neat to see! Glad the guy on the bike stopped. Squeeze track lol.

[@lakesuperiorvideos]

Thanks for watching and your comment.

[@marksmithdiecast001]

Great video and setup!

[@lakesuperiorvideos]

Thanks!