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I had a nice long conversation with the owner of Central Valley at the National Train Show in Anaheim last summer. I'm going to do a compromise between hand laying turn outs and ready made. Central Valley offers their plastic switch tie strips that are curvable for $8.95 a pair for #5 and #6. I can use code 55 rail from Micro-engineering and frogs from Proto87 to make my own switches. By the way, the Proto87 store makes and sells both standard NMRA spec frog castings and proto87 spec castings.
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Russ Bellinis Wrote:You can buy frog casting here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.proto87.com">http://www.proto87.com</a><!-- m -->
I had a nice long conversation with the owner of Central Valley at the National Train Show in Anaheim last summer. I'm going to do a compromise between hand laying turn outs and ready made. Central Valley offers their plastic switch tie strips that are curvable for $8.95 a pair for #5 and #6. I can use code 55 rail from Micro-engineering and frogs from Proto87 to make my own switches. By the way, the Proto87 store makes and sells both standard NMRA spec frog castings and proto87 spec castings.
Russ, my opinion of your choices cannot be summarized by the available smilies. May I, on behalf of the Gauge community, require that you share pictures of them once you've begun to install them so that we might all be jealous and admire your work
Michael
My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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nkp_174 Wrote:Russ Bellinis Wrote:You can buy frog casting here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.proto87.com">http://www.proto87.com</a><!-- m -->
I had a nice long conversation with the owner of Central Valley at the National Train Show in Anaheim last summer. I'm going to do a compromise between hand laying turn outs and ready made. Central Valley offers their plastic switch tie strips that are curvable for $8.95 a pair for #5 and #6. I can use code 55 rail from Micro-engineering and frogs from Proto87 to make my own switches. By the way, the Proto87 store makes and sells both standard NMRA spec frog castings and proto87 spec castings.
Russ, my opinion of your choices cannot be summarized by the available smilies. May I, on behalf of the Gauge community, require that you share pictures of them once you've begun to install them so that we might all be jealous and admire your work
We are still remodeling the house, but I hope it is finished within the next month! Then when I get started on the railroad, I'll need to learn how to post photos!
