AmFlyer posted:Bill's comments above about my turnouts are accurate. I can operate scale or high rail wheels. The rail I chose is MTH .138 high. I tested .125 rail but it was too low to work reliably with all high rail wheels. Today Fox Valley makes #5 turnouts with .138 rail that can be made to work with both scale and Highrail wheels.
I use Legacy with ZW-L's for track power. This way I can operate command control and also use the Cab 2 controller to run the original Gilbert engines.
I know this has been done, but I can’t figure out what the modifications would be that would allow a pre-made turnout such as Fox Valley’s to work with both scale and hi-rail wheels. I can understand modifying a Warris’ Fast Tracks turnout somehow because you are essentially building it from scratch, and both a moving frog-point and a closed frog turnout are easy enough figure out. Is there a tutorial or something online or in print that details this?
My switches on my own layout are the closed frog type offered years ago by the late Earl Eshleman, who during a phone conversation indicated my batch of turnouts may have been the last ones he produced. They work like the old Tru-scale HO high-speed switches from the fifties & sixties.
Bill in FtL
