Fast Tracks

Well it took us a bit longer than we had expected to actually get all the new bits and pieces for our new Infinite™ Track System onto the website, but they are finally available. We still have a tremendous amount of work to do yet, but I think we are off to a good start.

The Infinite Track System is just a way of describing all of the tools and supplies that we offer for building track work. Up until now we have pretty much only offered assembly fixtures and supplies for switches, and while switches are an important part of building a layout, clearly we were missing a lot of other parts. The release of these new products means that we now have a complete track building system - from track planning to completion.

The new products that we are releasing today include:

• Straight Track Assembly Fixtures
• Curved Track Assembly Fixtures - with customizable radius versions
• Pre-Gapped PC Board Crossties with tie heights that match standard wood crossties
• QuickSticks laser cut ties for straight and curved track built using our assembly fixtures
• TwistTies laser cut ties for all wood tie construction of straight and curved track (Track built without an assembly fixture.)
• Our complete line of Platform layout planners and roadbed pieces

We still need to produce documentation and videos for all of these new releases. That is underway now, and if everything goes smoothly we should have this completed in the next 3-5 weeks. Video production is scheduled to start late next week. We are going to be re-shooting all of our current videos in a higher quality format for DVD's and will be producing about another dozen new videos for all of the new products we have just released.

Of all the products we just released, the new Platforms are probably the largest with over 3,000 pieces for all scales and track components. By themselves it will probably be somewhat challenging to decide what pieces you would actually need, so our first project after we have created documentation is to come up with a number of pre-packaged kits of Platform pieces that can be used to design and build layouts, or parts of layouts. Over time we hope to have a fairly comprehensive collection of layout design kits that people can choose from.

There are a couple of interesting Platform pieces that you may want to checkout. The Easement pieces should be of particular interest to anyone who has struggled to figure out how to build an easement. Here is a direct link to the HO versions. They are of course available for all other scales as well. The curved and circle kits should also be very helpful in planning and laying out curves and loops. We also have these available in customizable radiuses.

This product release represents a fairly significant expansion for us and hopefully will lay the foundation for a number of new and exciting products in the future.

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Cheers!

Ron Warris
Fast Tracks

Thanks to you and your team for the work to get the new items on the web site. Now you can take a break for the holiday coming up.

I can't wait to dig in and see what all is available.

Kurt

just finished placing my order for HO & HOn3 Platforms and now for the wait. I hate the
waiting, I always get over excited about receiving new products and trying them out. I got a
mix of everything well, everything I'll be in need of. I bought complete circles of 18'R for my
HOn3 and 24" and 26" for my HO. so far I don't have any larger radius then those. I am
going to use the platforms as layout tools only. I prefer to use 1/2" Homasote as roadbed
for the simple reason I was given 34ea 4 X 8 foot sheets of the stuff by a good friend of
mine when his father sold out his family lumber company. It's the only thing I don't have to
pay for on this Railroad and it gives me plenty of extra if I make cutting mistakes. I also
bought a number of turnouts, and a couple of straight platform Kits and a number of
accessories, easements and crossings. If I find I need more the computer is always on so it
doesn't take long to place and order.

Thanks Tim and Ron for all the hard work helping keep the Hobby alive

Hi Tim and Ron,

When I was talking about the 9 foot ties I was referring to the wood ties and pc ties. The wood ties you are coming out with (the ones that would be used without the assembly fixtures) that I can't find a picture of right now, If these ties were the 9 footers, and you cut the pc ties to 9 foot, then anyone wanting to match the Microengineering track won't have any problems. I myself would need or use the assembly fixtures for straight or curved track because I'm now comfortable using gauges.

So the concern about the fixed fixtures isn't an issue.


Rob

Hello Fast Tracks!!
Thank You for the Platform Joiner Removal Tool. I have been out of town for the past
few weeks and my neighbor had been bringing my mail into my house. My wife has an
Antique Upright Grand Piano and Brian (my neighbor) had been placing all the mail on
top of the piano and the package containing the Tool slipped off the top of the piano
and back against the wall. Saturday I pulled the piano out so my wife could run the
vacuum behind it and I saw the package for the first time. upon opening it I was totally
surprised at what was in it. This tool is making the disassemble of the platforms so much
easier and I wish I had found it a few days ago but now that I have it I wanted to say
Thank you for another great addition to my Fast Tracks Tools.

Happy Holidays to all at Fast Tracks and to all the friends of this forum.

Anyone ordering the Platforms make sure to order the Joiner Removal tool it is an
absolute must have tool for the disassemble and removal of the Joiners to avoid
breakage of the Platforms.

Oh and Tim and Ron have named this tool the "Key Punch" The perfect name if I do say so!

Thank you for your comments Rio-Grande-Dan!

It may not be well known, but there are actually four of us involved with Fast Tracks - all brothers. Tim and I are the founders of the company, but since starting we have been joined by Russ and Scott. Russ actually does all of our production, plus he does some design work as well. In the case of the Key Punch tool, he noticed that Tim was struggling a bit to remove the joiners from the Platforms, so being the tinkerer that he is, he come up with this tool.

We all agree, it works very nicely.

We don't have the KeyPunch tool on the site yet, but should have it added shortly. We will be including the KeyPunch tool at no charge for Platform orders over $100.00 and with any Platform Kit (Which are not on the site yet either. We are working on it!)

Here is a picture of the assembled tool. (BTW, it is shipped un-assembled. We figured people would have more fun assembling it themselves. )

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Cheers!

Ron Warris
Fast Tracks

It's been a while since I visited this site.

Has the Infinite Track System passed-into bolivion? That is to say have you abandoned the product? I understand you had porduction problems and without production, you have no product. Sorry if I missed a big announcement about all this. Like I said, it's been a while.

thanks

Yes, we did discontinue the Platform product line quite some time ago. The system actually worked very well, but there were production problems that we could not overcome. At this point it is unlikely that they will be re-introduced. (Unless of course one of us here has a sudden flash of brilliance!)

The straight and curved track assembly fixtures, which are part of the Infinite Track system are still available however.

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Cheers!

Ron Warris
Fast Tracks

Thanks.

Sorry you guys coudln't make it work. It was a good idea.

I guess it should have been called FINITE track..