Can't beat your good fortune, Mike, but in the Navy a buddy's wife worked for JC Penney and she got a nice discount. She picked up a 1/32 scale Figure 8 track with a high bank for his Christmas, and it wasn't long before I had one too and we combined them for a bigger layout. It was getting boring until we realized that letting off the throttle on one car gave the other an amp "boost" that could send it flying off a corner. Since we had two of everything, it wasn't long before we had a transformer wired in for each lane, and then an extra bunch of turns on the secondary of each transformer The rear tires wore slick pretty soon after that......