Just for fun I’ve made a stub switch. I’ve soldered hundreds of turnouts, but not the last time. So I had to make one more. [:)]
If you’re interested, here’s my How To.
Wolfgang
Nice work, Wolfgang!
Now maybe all those White Pass and Yukon wannabe modelers will take heart and build their dream.
(The WP&Y had stub switches under their modern 2-8-2s - points would clog with snow.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
This newbeeee will bite. “What’s a stub switch”[?]
B
Don’t forget Google, your best friend.
Rich
It’s what railroads used before switch points were invented.
Here’s a 3-way:
Very interesting. One question, is it the 4 rails that are part of the stub that move, or do the 2 rails leading to the stub move?
the two rails leading to the sub move. Therefore they need about “unspiked” 20’ way tie bars. These tie bars keep the rail in gauge.
I’ve only two. [:)]
Wolfgang
The two rails move.
I put a Google link in the thread. If you click on the link, there is a lot of information concerning stub switches. I try to do that to give people the idea that they can search the Internet for a lot of information.
Here is a photo of a three way stub I built. HO scale. Look at the bottom of the photo.The weathering was not finished when I took the photo.
Rich
I couldn’t help but noticing the odd camelback locomotive you have richg1998.
The Virginia and Truckee used theirs right up to the very end too.
The loco is a bashed Winans Camel 0-8-0. Old time Roundhouse 2-8-0 as the basis for the loco. Yes, over size but captures the flavor of the era. I cut off the sand dome and steam dome and made a large forward mounted steam dome, plus a PSC rectangular sand dome. The tender has outside mounted beam brakes like the tenders and rolling stock of that ear.
Around two hundred to three hundred were produced in the 1850s, just before the not so civil war in the USA. The B&O kept a couple wheezing around the yards and the last one was taken apart around 1898.
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abboc.Html
The below one I tried to model. Notice it does not have the sloping firebox.
Rich