Paul Painter's New Routed Non-Mag HO Track!

I had the pleasure of visiting Paul Painter's cool hang out last week. It is always a treat to visit Paul and see what his current projects and achievements are! Paul's latest project is this way cool routed HO track. This track is unique in the fact it is a track that does not support magnetic traction type cars! Paul built this track with the ultimate goal of ensuring there would be no benefit from a car's magnets (including the motor magnets) enhancing the cars overall handling performance. He accomplished this goal by using tinned copper braid (like the type used on commercial type 1/24 routed tracks) for the electrical contact or "rails" on this track. There is absolutely no magnetic traction on this track!

The bottom line is the performance of the cars brings back memories of the '60s, only better! The track is super smooth and challenging! The build quality of this track is exceptional, typical of what one would expect from Paul Painter!

There were a few of us there for Paul's track unveiling (L to R; Herb, Paul, Dave, Jerry).

This part of Paul's track is a true optical illusion. It looks like Paul built an Aurora Thunderjet type "hump" into the track. Although I was fooled, even when running the first few laps, there is no hump, just a set of curves.

Dave Smith took a moment to post an iconic pose (sporting the appropriate glasses) below the Cherry Park signage.