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From: Pieter <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 29 November, 2010 19:23:09
Subject: {S-Scale List} Switches was Re: Running Boards

   
The explanation I have been given is that on the prototype the whole device is 
a 
"turnout", but the parts that route the train are the "switch". A switchman can 
align or "throw" the switch, only the track gang would align a turnout and you 
would need a crane to "throw" one.

Is this stuff interesting to the list as a whole, or are you busy working your 
delete keys?

Pieter Roos

--- In [email protected], Rollain Mercier <raleig...@...> wrote:
<SNIP>
> On switches/turnouts - some railroaders call them turnouts but some 
> call them switches - either way the electric (or pneumatic) gizmos 
> that move them are called "switch machines".
> 


 

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