12-01-2010, 09:57 PM
Lynn:
I have a unit much like yours which is a Fleischmann double slip from the 60s. Mine is now gummed up and no longer works. The Atlas looks the same except for the metal frogs.
These units have a different mechanism than prototype slips. There are two throwbars at each end and they run in opposite directions. So, while other slips can only provide one route at a time (of 4), this one will always provide 2 routes: either both straight across or both around the curve.
I have a unit much like yours which is a Fleischmann double slip from the 60s. Mine is now gummed up and no longer works. The Atlas looks the same except for the metal frogs.
These units have a different mechanism than prototype slips. There are two throwbars at each end and they run in opposite directions. So, while other slips can only provide one route at a time (of 4), this one will always provide 2 routes: either both straight across or both around the curve.
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.