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From: Jonathan Hatfield
. . . . . . . . . . .I checked with Tom [Stoltz] about getting some turnouts
built and he . . . . . . . .won’t be taking any new orders for a while. So
since I want to be able to run both scale wheels and modern Flyonel flanges
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When I was young and foolish I thought the same thing. Being today older
( and ??? ), I've decided on scale only. It makes life a lot easier.
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I think my only option is going to be hand-laying my own and experimenting
with the flangeways until I get a good compromise. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I doubt that your good compromise will be reliable for scale or high-rail.
Here are two other suggestions -
ONE. Study carefully the frog insert on the Tom's Turnouts. Maybe you can
recreate - whittle, cast, ?? - these for yourself. They are key to running
scale and high-rail together, and they work, as the SMSG club demonstrated
again yesterday at the Monroe Michigan train show. You should be able to do
this for yourself with no problem, but before you start selling them, talk
to your lawyer or work out an understanding with Mr Stoltz.
TWO. Look at the latest version of the SHS turnout and note the swing-nose
frog (moving frog point). There is no gap and therefore no flangeway
dimension to be concerned with. And I don't think SHS has a patent on that
idea, since it's been used in certain real world heavy-haul and high-speed
track applications for a long time, world-wide. Make your own turnouts
using this system at any degree of divergence ("number") that works for your
railroad.
Tom Hawley
http://michmod.com
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