| Bachmann Trains Snap - Fit E - Z Track Steel Alloy World's Greatest Hobby Track Pack |  | Brand: Bachmann
Category: Toy
List Price: $89.99
Buy New: $59.84
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Seller: Best Service Stores
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 47,822
Age: 14 - 15 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.4
Dimensions (in): 3 x 15 x 19
MPN: 44497
Model: 44497
UPC: 022899444970
EAN: 0022899444970
ASIN: B000N2K2RQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Steel Alloy rail with Black roadbed | | • | 33 sections of Snap-Fit E-Z Track | | • | Two Turnouts - Left | | • | Two turnouts - right | | • | Two hayes bumpers |
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Product Description
Scale, Category: HO Scale - E-Z Track® Accessories Item No: 44497 Name: Steel Alloy First Railroad Track Pack Roadname: Description: It's never been easier to get started in model railroading! Bachmann's Your First Layout Track Pack contains all the track you need to build the layout featured in the included DVD, Building Your First Model Railroad. Hosted by actor and model railroad enthusiast Michael Gross, the easy-to-follow video will quickly get you on track for fun with the World's Greatest Hobby! 45-piece Track Pack includes: World's Greatest Hobby Building Your First Model Railroad DVD, hosted by actor/model railroader Michael Gross nine 9" straights one 9" terminal/rerailer one 9" rerailer twenty 18" radius curves two 3" straights two switches - left two switches - right two Hayes bumpers four switch wires (green) one terminal wire (red) Bachmann HO scale E-Z Track® features: clear tie spacing low-profile spike heads modeled from AAR track engineering dimensions
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| Customer Reviews:
 Cheaply made, not a great choice April 26, 2010
M.C. (New York, NY)
We bought this for my 9 yr old son as an expansion pack for a "Basic" train set. Now it sits in a box in the closet with all the other stuff we bought, because he got tired of the trains jumping the tracks. At first, the "EZ-TRACK" seems like a great idea - it looks more rugged than the stuff I had as a kid. But it isn't - they are hard to connect, and easy to connect wrong. The electric switches for the right and left turn-outs are VERY poorly made, and if you need to disconnect them, don't be surprised when the wire pulls out from the connector - they are REALLY poorly made! But the worst part is the turn-outs themselves. We couldn't figure out why the second or third car on the train was derailing every time it went over one of these turn-ous, but when we did it very slowly over and over, we noticed that the center track was wobbling slightly - turns out the rivet that holds it has too much "give", so the weight of the car moves it side-to-side, causing the lighter cars (in particular) to derail. And no, you can't fix it - I tried tightening the rivet, and later, replacing it with a wider one - its just badly designed... At first I thought I just had a bad turn-out, but I tried it with two others (left and right), and had exactly the same problem - THEY ARE JUNK!. Magnetic decoupler works "some of the time", and the couplers themselves are extremely fragile. THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN BUYING A TOY YOUR CHILD REALLY WANTS, AND WATCHING HIM LOSE INTEREST BECAUSE HE CAN'T MAKE IT WORK. Except, maybe, not being able to help, even after you figure out the problem... Bachmann "EZ-TRACK" is JUNK - save your child the disappointment, and buy a different brand.
 Bachman EZ Track the Way to Roll October 31, 2009
F. McCullough
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
My son and I have been putting together a 4x8 train table with full layout and landscaping. After a number of years getting various train sets and track options for HO scale, we decided to go with the Bachman Snap Fit EZ Track Pack. We'll keep the other track sets as spares (you can get adapters for them) but the Bachman set made the layout consistent and works well with specialized options. We found it's definitely the way to get the set rolling.
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