09-12-2010, 01:21 PM
Best option these days is RC plane servos. Check out http://www.tamvalleydepot.com Tortoise used to be my choice, but they've gotten WAY too expensive lately. There's still a commercial version using the Hankscraft type motors but I guess I never understood the fascination. They need a resistor to kee from burinign up, they have no contacts for frog power like a Tortoise, cost about the same as a Tortoise, and aren't nearly as easy to install. For the price of a Tortoise though, you can get a servo and the controller for it, which happens to ALSO be a DCC stationary decoder. So you get the mechanical part plus the fascia buttons and LED indicators AND a DCC decoder. I'm using nothing but on my new layout.
--Randy
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com

