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Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Automated Wheelstops
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:21:31 -0600
From: Bob Werre <[email protected]>
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Ed,
One of my 'operating' friends uses regular rubber erasers on the tracks
to hold cars from drifting away after uncoupling. Another friend plants
some weeds in the middle of the track to stop the cars. Still another
uses a short piece of music wire on a bell crank arrangement that works
the best. His is operated with a rod but he (and I) will do more remote
ones using a Tortoise switch machine. So a DP toggle should control it
correctly with a red LED as an indicator not to run a train into it
while in the up/stop position.
All this wasn't necessary when we only had Ace and Kinsman trucks that
would hold to most gentle grades. Now most cars will roll to the lowest
point on the layout--sometimes 20 feet away.
What I haven't dealt with yet is the amount of throw of the Tortoise vs
the distance to catch a axle.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
ed_loizeaux wrote:
> > I was stringing wires for seven turnouts,
> > three electro uncouplers and two automated wheel stops.
> > Bob Werre
>
> "S"ay Roberto'......How about telling us about those "automated wheel
> stops"? Sounds interesting. Thx...Ed L.
>
>
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