Originally Posted by 1drummer:
- I have never see any "plastic rails" on a GG switch; what does this even mean?
On the 42, the converging rails have plastic frogs...and no pin connection.
I like MTH Turnouts...the auto selecting is awesome
But, I follow my trains, so I like to operate manually.
Ross seems to be nice, but I prefer to put my budget into the Train.
After all, when I am railfanning, I do not go to watch the track.
On the 42, the converging rails have plastic frogs...and no pin connection.
I like MTH Turnouts...the auto selecting is awesome
But, I follow my trains, so I like to operate manually.
Ross seems to be nice, but I prefer to put my budget into the Train.
After all, when I am railfanning, I do not go to watch the track.
The plastic part is from where the track splits to the end of the rail on the curved section, and there is no track pin there, mainly 042 GG has that feature. So to put 2 042 GG switches back to back will cause an electrical drop out of the outside rails and I have put a short section of straight track(about one and a half to two inch section of straight) between the 2 switches and wired up both outside rails to the common power supply.
I am going to try Ross Custom switches instead of Gargraves on my new layout and see what happens. I just looked at the new Ross switches I have bought(have in storage currently) and all the rails are metal except at the frog point.
Lee Fritz
