But, as you can see in the video, when the truck passes under the plunger and you push it down, the cargo bed flips over to become a load of dirt. B4340 Load ’em Up Gravel Co.Īt first glance, this set doesn’t look very exciting. I used a few (not all) track and bridge pieces from the B4338 Rail Track Pack for the train to ride on. The remote controller only plays its horn, chugging, and air brake sounds through the speakers in the Depot. Since this is one of the earliest GeoTrax sets, you need to insert the remote controller into the Depot that comes with Tracktown Railway to get the full audio effect. The fire station door doesn’t really creak like that. I added sound effects to this (and other) videos. You can pull the hose on the tanker car out and pretend to fill up or spray something. It just so happened that I had to coax it through in the video, and I didn’t want to re-record the whole thing. You will often be able to get the coal (boulder) to drop and roll all the way through to the front of the mountain when releasing it from the crane. They worked just as well as the originals. I used the three red pipes, which are the same size, from the Cross Valley Junction set (see below) instead. I believe this is because they don’t really stand out as GeoTrax pieces. I didn’t have the three yellow pipes that accompany a complete set. Notes on Videos in the First GeoTrax Sets Playlist B1836 Tracktown Railway Below each playlist I have included a few notes about each set shown in the videos. These are not professional quality videos, but you should still be able to get a good idea of what fun you and your children can have with your GeoTrax trains. To see a particular video (and those that follow it), click the Playlist selection area in the top left corner of the video screen and choose the video you want to see from the dropdown list. Hopefully these videos will make that clearer to you. It’s not always obvious from looking at a still photograph what fun you can have with each of the pieces in a set. Sorry about that.Ī picture is worth a thousand words, but videos are worth…at least a few more.īelow are playlists of videos I have taken that show most of the moving parts of various GeoTrax sets with which I have come in contact. For some reason, YouTube took down Playlists 2 and 3.
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