Hold the phone... I need to address a point right now. I am NOT looking to sell or market turnouts to compete with Tom's Turnouts. Don't know where that idea came from. I am just looking for the best solution for my personal layout. Having said that, I may try to replicate the frog insert, or I may just run everything with large flanges and gauge the turnouts appropriately. The flanges don't bother me. Everything I own currently (other than my Flyonel Mikado) is SHS so I can easily swap to the larger flanges. I love scale, but the new Flyonel offerings, and the rumors I hear about new Flyonel scale engines to come make me want to build my layout to run them too. I think I may be better served to just accept the larger flanges and gauge my turnouts accordingly. All SHS, AM, RR(0-6-0), and even Sunset 4-6-2 (if made) products have large flange options. That's what I am thinking right now, unless someone offers a better solution.
Regards, Jonathan Blogs: http://RailfanX.blogspot.com and http://cloudvirt.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonnyspeed Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhatfield From: Tom Hawley Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Being all things to all wheel profiles. ----- Original Message ----- 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 . . . . . . . . . . > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. < < < < < < < < < < < < < I think my only option is going to be hand-laying my own and experimenting with the flangeways until I get a good compromise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 [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/
