Is it possible to use Ross switches with MTH scale trax.
Thank you for your help.
Big Dom
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I have successfully mated Gargraves flex track (and ross turnouts) to Atlas scake track used in their bridges, and to tubular track used by Lionel in their Bascule, Lift, and Swing bridges ... to do this, there are special pins which mate to each ... some come with the Atlas bridges, and I no longer recall where the tubular special pins may have originated. The following usually works ... just put the normal gargraves pins into ross turnouts, and the other end into tubular track, and wedge it up, so it is a fairly tight fit, you can slip round tootpicks into the tubular track first if desired ... I do not really know what MTH track might be like, but all of these tracks can be mated up if you are even slightly patient ... good luck and best regards, richard
Prototype railroads had lots of transitions, from one weight rail, to another; at lift and draw bridges, at turntables ... so this is normal ...
When you say to wedge it up, do you mean to add a shim to the track height?
I know that you can use O gauge adapter pins for Gargraves track to tubular and then go from tubular track to MTH Scaletrax. I think that MTH makes an adapter piece for Scaletrax to tubular track.
Ross Swithces has two styles of track for their switches in O gauge so you may have to ask Ross which switch may work better for your track choice.
Lee Fritz
