In a private e-mail Don Thompson asked "Are you planning on using these with code 110 wheels?"
The answer is "Yes - and no." It is interesting. When I have a layout in a working trainroom, I run highrail. When I don't have a layout then I act like my track is handlaid, which means scale wheels. I will not have layout in the basement in this house. So I have 7 feet of 8 inch wide test track above my workbench on first floor. The right end is a separate 2 foot by 8 inch board I had planned to replace with a 2 feet by 13 inch board. (Found it in my the woodpile.) Body mounted couplers hate the S curve. So I thought I could have some more running options if I added another track in front. I have not handlaid this track because I have always loved the flexibility that sectional track provides. (Doug Peck is $120.00 richer this Christmas because of this love. I have about 100 sticks of 33" code 125 in storage. Switches (turnouts) are easy to build.) Right now I am building a scale steeplecab with body mounted couplers and scale wheels. Next up is to DCC a rebuilt American Flyer Hudson in its toy-train glory of highrail flanges and truck mounted 'lobster claw' couplers. It is Sunday and I am trying to build a new roof for the Steeplecab. I am trying to laminate two layers of 0.010 styrene with the needed curves. Thorin --- In [email protected], Thorinn Marty <lagt...@...> wrote: > > Good morning: > Santa and Doug Peck brought me a SHS right turnout (switch) for > Christmas > for my workbench layout. I already have an SHS left providing a siding or > the > left yard track. Due to space limitations this left turnout plugs into a > right > curve forming a nasty S curve. > > ---------------------------------------------- > ----------/ > > I want to expand to a three track yard with my new turnout. This will give > me > one nasty S curve and one gentle S curve. > > --------X------------------------------------- > ------------/ > -------- > > Last night I tried to build the above layout. The right turnout's ground > throw > interferes with the other track coming shows with the big X. The ground > throw > portion is part of the turnouts base casting. It can not be unscrewed and > swapped to the other side. > > ---------\ > ---------------------------------------------- > ------------/ > > This could work but now I have TWO nasty S curves. The whole objective was > to > eliminate a nasty S Curve. > > ----------------X------------------------------- > ------------/........./......................<-- Pretend the dots are not > there > -------------------/ > > This does not work unless I have a half-straight between the turnouts, again > because of the ground throws. Plus I do not have two left turnouts. > I am back to spacing AF issues and have to have a half-straight between > switches. > > I am very sad as I thought the SHS turnouts avoided the problems found with > the > AF switches with their huge their direction control lever box. > > Any suggestions? > Thorin > > [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/
