I love opinions about track. Here is another. Peco is not mid-grade. It is the best out there in HO and N. I have used Shinohara in N, HO and in S and I have used Peco. There is no comparison. Shinohara turnouts were relatively floppy and made poor electrical contact after a year or two. The Peco stuff just keeps on truckin' year after year after year. The built-in centering spring assures good rail closure. I controlled mine with Peco switch machines, Peco switch machines with auxillary contacts and Tortoise machines.
Neither design will support both RP-25 flanges and Flyer-compatible flanges at the same time. For that, we need closed-frog turnouts. Add even smaller or thinner flanges and the problem is amplified. >From an operational and aesthetic sense, it would be very good to have Peco turnouts and track available in S. I would choose to have them make Flyer-compatible switches (if I had a choice) and then I could always add the styrene strip on the guard rails that American Models advises for scale use. Closed-frog would work for both but not look precisely like most prototype switches. Good Luck, Bill Porter > Agreed... though I have to admit that I never used the Peco turnouts. I > went straight from the lower-grade Atlas (and other) turnouts to the > high-grade Shinohara, BK, etc, etc, etc. turnouts... overstepping the Peco > "mid-grade" (as I call it) stuff. But at the same time, I was also going > from 4X8, table-top layouts to modules, shelf (point-to-point), and > full-fledged layouts. > > > John Degnan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). Change message settings, use our CALENDAR or LINKS, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
