02-17-2018, 08:39 PM
2. Peco's switch machine are sold to go with turnouts from N to O gauge. The same machines.
1. debatable. Depends on how long your locos are. I wouldn't use them with 44-tonners. Also how many pickups and how flexible the trucks are. I decided that I like the looks of the all-rail frogs better, but I used insulfrogs for years. Worst problems were with steam switchers that had rigid frames and deep flanges; the flange would raise the loco at the frog and the rest of the wheels on that side would rise off the rails as well.
1. debatable. Depends on how long your locos are. I wouldn't use them with 44-tonners. Also how many pickups and how flexible the trucks are. I decided that I like the looks of the all-rail frogs better, but I used insulfrogs for years. Worst problems were with steam switchers that had rigid frames and deep flanges; the flange would raise the loco at the frog and the rest of the wheels on that side would rise off the rails as well.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.