Tortoise switch and crossing arms

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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anyone have home made plans for connecting a tortoise switch to crossing arms?

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Hello Jeff,

Look up “Slow-action crossing gates,” by Gordon Odegard, in the November and December 1987 issues of MODEL RAILROADER. (Photocopies of articles from out-of-print back issues can be ordered from customerservice@kalmbach.com.) Gordy showed how to use one Tortoise to activate a pair of gates on opposite sides of the track. He installed the mechanism with scratchbuilt gates and signals, also covered in the articles, on our old MR&T club railroad,. It worked perfectly for three years – until we moved and dismantled that layout.

so long,

Andy

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anyone have home made plans for connecting a tortoise switch to crossing arms?

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Hello Jeff,

Look up “Slow-action crossing gates,” by Gordon Odegard, in the November and December 1987 issues of MODEL RAILROADER. (Photocopies of articles from out-of-print back issues can be ordered from customerservice@kalmbach.com.) Gordy showed how to use one Tortoise to activate a pair of gates on opposite sides of the track. He installed the mechanism with scratchbuilt gates and signals, also covered in the articles, on our old MR&T club railroad,. It worked perfectly for three years – until we moved and dismantled that layout.

so long,

Andy