This must be track night. I got home from module work session and found a
voice mail from a club member asking me to dig out a turnout I once made so
he could study it. Unfortunately, I can't find it right now. But it was
made with code 100 rail, soldered down to PC ties, and it had a swing-nose
or moving point frog It was a #6 and could run both AF and scale smoothly.
I sent my friend an e-message saying I can't find it right now, but if
you're smart, you'll give up the idea of running highrail and scale on the
same track. It's too much hassle.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Karnes
. . . . . . . . . Why do I not recommend closed-frog (movable point-frog)
turnouts? Because you have a really long movable chunk comprised of two
rails, three brass plates holding these together, and a pivot point whose
location must be precisely positioned for both the points and the frog to
align properly.
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This is true of the old Tru-Scale "high-speed" turnouts, Gargraves, and the
new "American High Rail" turnouts, but NOT TRUE of the one I made, described
above, nor of the SHS turnouts, not of the prototype moving-point frogs.
With the moving point frog, all lateral pressure serves to push the
components tighter up against where they should be.
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Tomalco makes a lot of different sizes as well as three-way turnouts.
Another firm, Trout Creek Engineering, makes "BK Turnouts."
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Tomalco gets it's trackwork from BK.
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S Helper Service -- Excellent products. The relatively large rail (about 8
scale inches high)
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Measure it some time. It's even a little higher than 8 scale inches. (8
scale inches = exactly code 125).
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[SHS] All sectional, no flextrack.
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SHS has flextrack, but you have to supply roadbed & ballast.
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White Oak Turnouts [made in the UK] -- I am told these are no longer made,
but you might find some available -- maybe from Tom Hawley (who is on this
e-list).
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Yes, I'm on, but no, I don't have any. When the US$ went so far downhill
relative to the £ sterling and the €, I bailed out, though they were an
excellent product.
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. . . . lot of hirail people out there ... will tell you that hirail is
easier to work with; that scale wheels and track are subject to derailment
problems. But if you ask the relatively few of us out here who actually have
scale trackage, we will tell you that that's a myth.
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I agree 100 %. Even if it does take a little more fussing, it's worth it.
An you'll have a realistic railroad that you'll be proud of.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
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