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From: scale S only
. . . . . . Dick Karnes likes to make his turnouts with polarized frogs
through contacts so he can run nearly prototypical point to stock rail
clearances. If you look at real turnouts, the space between the open point
and stock rail is very close, acting as a de facto guard rail. With like
polarity on the point and stock rail, you can get pretty close...
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I've always favored this. If the back of the wheel touches the switch
point, there's no short.
In a photo of model trackwork, no matter how otherwise realistic, . the
extremely wide space between stock rail and point rail, (plus lack of
tie-plates), is always a giveaway that it's a "somebody's basement"
railroad, not a real one.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
Bill Winans
Prescott Valley, AZ
What makes them DCC friendly as well as DC friendly too is bonding the
points to their adjacent running rails and insulating and positively
powering the frog. It's a small simple procedure that eliminates any chance
of future problems
....dave
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