S Helper track will run the Flyionel Mike (or any other AF flanges). The trick
is still getting both through the switches. You need either closed frog or Tom
Stoltz turnouts, a regular code 125 turnout can be tuned to run either type of
wheel but not both.
Nobody has mentioned that the old Miller strip is probably set up for the older
NMRA S gauge rather than the newer NASG/NMRA. Using code 100 rail in it may
proivde enough "slop" to make the new gauge fit.
Pieter E. Roos
Railroad Home Page at
www.geocities.com/pieter_roos/pieter_1.html
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Tie Strip (Was Miller Tie Strip way back in June)
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 7:45 AM
Ah, yes! Good old Miller tie strip. More than a decade ago I picked some up at
the Ann Arbor model railroad show. It sat around the house for a few years
until I came across some Code 125 rail--or was that Code 126? Anyway, I put it
on the layout. Later from a good modeling friend, I purchased additional Miller
tie strip and in response to an ad offering some Code 125 rail purchased that,
too.
I like the stuff and wish--knowing full well that Code 125 is very heavy rail
in S scale--that I had some turnouts in the same code. In fact, one individual
mentioned that he had some, but I have never heard back from him. I understand
that it would allow me to operate the Flyonel Mike ugly flanges and all. I
still lust after that Mike and wish it were available in S scale.
Tom
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From: [email protected] on behalf of David Engle
Sent: Tue 10/21/2008 10:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Tie Strip (Was Miller Tie Strip way back in June)
The tie strip was intended for use with Code 125 rail, and that would go in,
but it was a tight fit. I did a layout with 100 in Miller, starting in the
mid-70s and tearing out due to a move in 1996; and the rail-insertion was tight
enough as it was; the tight gauge would be half the difference between the base
width of Code 125 and of Code 100. Later editions of the tie strip had wood
grain molded into it.
You could run AF wheels on Miller with 125 rail, not through switches, of
course, the molded spike heads were low enough to clear it. They had to be big
to have enough plastic mass to do the job. I got to see Bob Miller's place
a couple times in the mid-1960s, and even today it is an awesome memory.
DJE
----- Original Message -----
From: John Degnan
To: POST : (S) S-Scale Group
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:48 PM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Tie Strip (Was Miller Tie Strip way back in June)
Speaking of Tie Strips...
I finally got a small piece of this Miller Tie Strip and have had time to
review it. Having been in S for only a few years, I had never seen any
before. My thoughts... not bad at all for something of that age! Not
great by any means, but not bad. I took the code 100 rail from a piece of
Atlas HO snap-track and slid them into the strip and the gauge came out
almost right, but just a little on the tight side. That, and the fact that
the "spikes" are GODZILLA sized are the only real problems I could
find
with it... oh, and the lack of detail on the ties. The perfect spacing and
arrangement of the ties could be an issue for some, but that can be
overcome by using the strip primarily on well-maintained mainlines.
Now, I have a question... would such a product do well today? If someone
were to offer tie strip today... a tie strip that is far superior to the
Miller strip, would there be a market for it?
John Degnan
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It is a country whose citizens have a right to ACHIEVE.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:35 PM
> Subject: {S-Scale List} Miller Tie Strip
>
> Does anyone have any of the old Robert L. Miller tie strip they'd
> like to divest themselves of, or even the "S"cenery Unlimited
> reproduction stuff?
>
> Let me know what you want for it, and I'll decide if I can afford
> it.
> Bob Nicholson
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