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Yes, I'm running all my 3-rail engines (all center rollers have been removed) and rolling stock on Micro-Engineering/Atlas/Signature Switch Code 148 2-rail track components.  ALL BPRC of course

I thought the pizza-cutter flanges would bottom out but they don't.  When I ordered my #6 switches from Brad at Signature Switch I told him what I was doing.  He said he would allow for the 3-rail wheels, but I don't know what if anything he did.  I don't see anything that sticks out telling me "3-rail only".

Excellent switches by the way.  I tried building my own and after seeing how well his worked I replaced all my homemade ones with his.  You get what you pay for, quality and non-problematic operation.

 

Here's some 3-rail rolling stock on old Atlas 2-rail switches...with a third rail added. Basically the only thing I did was to remove the guard rails adjacent to the frogs. These switches connect to standard 027 tubular, which I adapted by soldering an 027 track pin to the Atlas rail joiner (not the Atlas O ones in the photo, but the flat 1970's style ones that look like oversize HO scale joiners)

3-railed 2-rail switch 

---PCJ

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