04-20-2012, 09:16 PM
Usual use of a double slip is to save space in a station area.
Any place you would have 2 switches points together you could substitute a double slip.
I have a couple in the ladder leading to my large passenger station. The platform tracks have a DSS in the nearer main track and a plain switch in the next one. The slip combines the functions of a crossing and a crossover and gives access to another platform as well.
I'm in the midst of installing one to replace the crossing in a double junction. I only needed a single slip, but I got a bargain from a friend.
I can't think of many places where only one DSS was used. The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport has one but I think its usefulness was diminished when they moved their entrance. Somewhere there's a picture of one leading to a lonely siding.
It might be used on the middle of three tracks for a crossover to access all three with one less S curve in the middle.
Here is a small collection. A couple of scissors crossovers made with 4 DSS; the formation is caused by 2 douple track ladders crossing each other.
Any place you would have 2 switches points together you could substitute a double slip.
I have a couple in the ladder leading to my large passenger station. The platform tracks have a DSS in the nearer main track and a plain switch in the next one. The slip combines the functions of a crossing and a crossover and gives access to another platform as well.
I'm in the midst of installing one to replace the crossing in a double junction. I only needed a single slip, but I got a bargain from a friend.
I can't think of many places where only one DSS was used. The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport has one but I think its usefulness was diminished when they moved their entrance. Somewhere there's a picture of one leading to a lonely siding.
It might be used on the middle of three tracks for a crossover to access all three with one less S curve in the middle.
Here is a small collection. A couple of scissors crossovers made with 4 DSS; the formation is caused by 2 douple track ladders crossing each other.
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.