I keep it simple 2 ways.
1: No HiRail stuff in the house
2: No layout Just long stretches of scale track on 30 feet of proposed layout
tablework.
NO PROBLEMS. John Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: Thorin
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 8:31 AM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: SHS turnouts, a left and a right
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
>
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