There are NO comerically made track switches that meet the standards!. MR did a three part article in 03 (I think) and their numbers proved my point. Fasrtracks is the closest to meeting them. Remember that you are building a switch on PC ties!!!! Building switches on PC ties is the only way to go in my oppinion. You can build any size frog that your layout needs using the PC method. Paul
--- On Sat, 7/31/10, ctxmf74 <[email protected]> wrote: From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Turnouts To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 9:24 AM --- In [email protected], Ed Kozlowsky <soldado7...@...> wrote: > Either the NMRA is giving approval to non-compliant turnouts, they don't > require all of the standards to be met for approval, they haven't approved > any HO turnouts, or the "rumor" that no HO turnouts comply is incorrect. I > suspect the last. > Hi Ed, I've read some magazine articles about test measurements on HO turnouts and the inconsistencies are there but they are mostly minor measurements that don't affect the operation since there is so much room for error in the wide wheel/ big flange combination of toy trains. Sure the NMRA targets are nice to aim for but unless one is running P87 they are pretty much overkill for HO trains and would add to the cost of the turnouts due to the finer tolerances and controls required without providing any real benefit to operations. Anyone who's run HO trains on the old Atlas snap track will already know that they run fine on very crude track ...........dave ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
