Intamin Track Dimensions

[Montario]

I am in the process of planning and designing for a scale model (1:30) of an Intamin mega lite (Piraten). I am struggling however to find the dimensions of Intamin's 2 tube track with cross ties. I was wondering if it looked more like this:

The 'height' longer than than the 'base' or:

The 'base' longer than the 'height'.

Any ideas? Its hard to tell from angles.

Also, there seem to be slight variations of the box (4 tube) track. Which one should I use for a mega-lite?

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/nannerdw/mavericktrain.jpg
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1...w=168&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:69

 

[CPcisco]

The top down profile tends to be slightly more rectangular, so your second picture is what I believe to be the more accurate representation. As for the quad-rail track the versions that you have there are not a standard quad-rail, in a standard quad-rail the top and bottom of the track use the same dimensions. The supporting braces between the two are offset inward like those in your bottom two reference pictures though. Simply put, quad-rail track theoretically could run the same train on either side of it.

 

[Montario]

^Thanks for that information...it really helped . Your answers were what I initially thought, I really needed clarification from someone who knows better than me.

 

[Taxi]

This may help you out.
http://www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca/faculty_projects/terri/boake_sti/projects/millennium.html

Jasper notes that three different track configurations were used, depending on the stresses involved in various parts of the ride. The simplest is two-pipe track—two running rails formed by 5” round HSS with walls 3/8” thick, connected by 6” square HSS “bents,” or cross-members.
“We also have three-pipe track,” he says. “In these, the two running rails are supported by a ‘backbone’ of round HSS, as large as 5” in diameter, beneath them.

All are cross-hatched together into a triangular truss structure using sections of square HSS.

“The strongest design,” he concludes, “combines the two running rails with two ‘backbone’ tubes connected by square HSS to form a rigid square truss that provides an extremely strong platform for the trains to travel on.”

 

[Montario]

Oh, this is great! Thanks, Taxi that was really useful :--D