--- In [email protected], "shabbona_rr" <user141771@...> wrote:
> On the plus side, it can accommodate both scale and hi-rail wheels. > I use
> Code 100 rail, and while my converted Atlas switches and AF rolling stock
> conversions may not look the greatest, they work, and the trains stay on the
> track. I guess that's an accomplishment in itself.
>
Haha, Actually I think that's the minus side? We don't want to encourage huge
flanges and couplers do we?
As for your code 100 atlas conversions I can say they do look very nice in
person. I haven't seen yours but I found a couple of old atlas switches a few
years ago and tried it. I cut one apart down the centerline, added a bit of
length between the frog and points then glued the pieces to a sheet of styrene
switch base. The atlas ties are oversize enough and spaced far enough apart to
look fine in S scale and the missing center part of the ties can either be
replaced with scrap tie material or just filled with ballast to over the tie
tops so it's not apparent. I wish I could find the one I converted to take a
photo but it's lost somewhere in my "collection". In my case I decided that it
din't take me much longer to glue down wooden ties and spike the rail to them
than it did to convert the atlas switches but I'd have been very satisfied with
them if I did use them. Much better than any code 148 track for
sure....DaveBranum
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