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In getting my '54 Flyer going again for my son a couple of years ago I bought the new, more realistic track now available. But I see at the train store that I could quite inexensively get enough track and switches for a satisfactory setup using the original track. I would need to clean it up. For nostalgia reasons, I like the idea of getting a set of the old track and watching my son play with the same set up I did in the fifties
Do any of you have experience with both? Is thge original better track than the newer version (appearances aside)? Does the train run better? Harder to keep clean? Etc. Etc.
Ira
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Hello Ira, Old track was steel. It is harder to keep clean. New stuff is probably nickel; provides better electical contact, closer to scale (?), needs less cleaning. If you are interested in nostalgia, try to find a track cleaning car, and use old stuff. Denis
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Thanks, Denis. That's the kind of helpful feedback I hoped I could get. I think I will get the old track for nostalgia reasons, and since I have the newer track anyway, I'll be able to indulge both whyms in my railroad magnate fantasies... Thanks again. Ira
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