What is wrong with the turnouts currently on the market? I have used both Shinohara and Tomalco with the flex track offered by these 2 manufacturers and it all worked well. I used caboose hobbies ground throw #220S (they are for HO but have contacts to power the frogs.) It all worked great with my DCC steam engines. Then there are the turnouts made by Tom's Turnouts. I have not used these.
For those with interest, there are a few reviews of the turnouts and track in either the dispatch or SGaugian. Terry Dillon Burbank, CA ________________________________ From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 10:15:00 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: (was S Philosophy) now is NEED for flex-track-compatible Motorized Turnouts --- In [email protected], tennsgauge@... wrote: > > I agree completely with Dick on the need for flex-track-compatible > motorized turnouts. The lack of this is bound to turn away a number of >converts. > Well, HO and N gaugers would certainly want flextrack compatible turnouts if they were thinking of switching to S but they wouldn't want them motorized. All scale modelers are used to installing their own switch throw mechanism , either a tortoise style motor or a bluepoint hand throw or a caboose ground throw typically. Motorized turnouts are more from the three rail O or Kato unitrack realm. A line of flextrack compatable code 100 DCC ready scale turnouts in #5 and #7 frog angles similiar to the Atlas or Microengineering HO product would be a nice place to start....dave ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front [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/
