Lego Trains?

[gbwdude]

Lego no longer makes Lego track and that you can't get it any more.

Not at all true, check this link out: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Trains-ByTheme Unless you were talking about 9V, then yes. All of the modern offerings that Lego has come out with use this style of track.

I have lots of experience in the old 9V Lego trains as that was my... gateway train...? While about the same time I started toying with HO scale I also was making my Lego trains look more realistic. The Santa Fe Super Chief from 2001ish and the following "model" Lego trains were my inspiration to make more realistic models in Lego, but HO won out because of the space required. (For those who don't know, Lego trains take up about the same amount of space as O gauge would, more specifically Lionel 0-27.) Here's some of my stuff from when I was back home and used to display it at the local museum: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=28537

However, if you do have some older Lego trains and since 9V track is astronomically high on eBay you do have a few options. Forgive me but I don't have links and will have to explain them. One way is you can take the modern R/C track and take either copper foil tape or something similar and tape it to the top and sides of the rails to have it make the electrical path it needs. Another way (and if I got back into it, I'd give this a whirl) is to buy O gauge rail and a bunch of 2x8 stud plates directly from Lego in either gray or brown, modify the 2x8 to remove the second from each end's studs, slide a rail joiner on, cut slits on the rail joiner to make a grabbing point, and plop it on the 2x8 plate. Instant in-gauge flex track.

Hope that helps you out some