Often refered to as a puzzle switch. Are there any hand through double slip switches in the USA? If not, where was there one? I recal seeing one once but can’t recall where.
Mission Tower in LA used to have two after a derailment in some little used space between LAUPT and the Tower…Last I heard the switches are now gone along with the switch machines that left earlier. The manual stands were rigid lo-star oddballs with extra notches.
The original triple throw switch at the top of Raton Pass at Wootton, CO was a triple throw stub switch which was sort of the early attempt at a double slip switch with fewer parts.
Only one I’ve seen is at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine.
But that’s in streetcar rail and embedded in cobblestones and worked with a switch iron.
All the ones in Toronto at Union Station are powered,
We have one here on the North Shore Scenic Railroad in Duluth.
Seems like there was one on the Southern (?) near the GM&O facility at Brooklyn, Ill. If it wasn’t on the Southern, it was in that godawful mixedup terminal trackage right in that general area.
Hand thrown double slip switch, right?
Old Timer
Here is an add-on to the hand throw question.
Are all American double slip switches low speed? Most I have seen are in low speed areas near passenger terminals but I wonder if any are in high speed areas. I guess by high speed I mean 40 mph or higher
Dave Nelson
Dearborn Station in Chicago had hand-thrown double-slip switches until some time after World War 2. Kensington
Junction on the IC has some double-slip switches that I have observed being taken by trains at about 20 MPH. The angle on most double-slip switches would preclude higher speeds.
Kensington Junction is also equipped with movable-point diamonds.