Increasing electrical pick up

[doctorwayne]

Tomar makes pick-up shoes, although you may also be able to make your own if you can find some phosphor-bronze strip material.
I installed a set of Tomar shoes on this Athearn switcher, even though it uses all eight wheels for current collection. Even with all wheels off the track, it'd keep going.


On this old John English steamer with brass driver tires, I added pick-up shoes to increase its reliability:




Wayne