Bizarre derailing Issue on a Turnout

[richhotrain]

@ATLANTIC_CENTRAL

Rich, you are taking advantage of the built in throw bar spring correct? For that kind of operation they are great. For slow motion switch machines you must remove that feature you paid extra money for?

Correct. The only reason that I started buying Peco turnouts was for the spring loaded feature. I can flip the points manually, but only where I can access the turnouts. For that reason, I use a mix of Atlas and Peco turnouts. With the Atlas turnouts, I use Tortoises to control the turnouts.

Rich

[gregc]

@richhotrain

The only reason that I started buying Peco turnouts was for the spring loaded feature. I can flip the points manually,

as i’ve been laying track this winter, i’ve been added over center springs to my atlas turnouts.

@BATMAN

discovered a pothole in the plastic just off the tip of the frog.

so this is a violation of the H-dimension in S-3.2, 0.025"

[richhotrain]

@gregc

as i’ve been laying track this winter, i’ve been added over center springs to my atlas turnouts.

That is something that the late RRMel used to do with great success. I could never master that technique.

Rich

[Umbreon_Of_Alton]

idk im having the same problem with marx switches i cant get my post war to stop derailing on them

[Pruitt]

I did, but now I 3D print my own ties. The Fast Tracks ties are nice, but at about $9 each for shipping, I decided 25 cent tie sets I make at home were a better deal.