Looks like you guys are coming along good with the layout, i enjoy all of your tips to do with building a layout. I’m still in the planning stages for my layout. Keep up the good work.
David,
Another great video! This is a nice edition to your layout, but it also gives me some different techniques to apply to my layout. Thanks for the great work and please keep these kind of videos in mind when this project is completed.
Steve Crawshaw
Stafford, VA
As always, great installment. Any thought to putting the whole series out as a Dream, Plan, Build type CD? I think tat would be great! Keep up the good work!
Great piece. (It would have been nice to explain how it works. I suspect it works the same as a reversing loop–If the frog polarity is wrong, a metal wheeled truck bridges the running rail to the frog it creates a short circuit and instantly reverses the frog polarity to be the correct polarity.)
As usual, David makes everything very clear, even to the beginner. Would have been nice to get a rough idea of the cost of the Juicer.
David:
As always an excellent job on this installment. Great tips on the issue of powering turnouts. I look forward to viewing the next installment!!
LOOKS LIKE THE HEIGHT IS PRETTY HIGH TO GET UNDER WAS WONDERING WHAT THE UNDER HEIGHT IS?
Very interesting.I I am a complete novice when it comes to electrical work and find following books with “wiring diagrams” quite difficult to follow. This sort of short clip on specific topics is wonderful. MORE PLEASE. All my turn outs are Peco, though I have what they call insulfrog. Is it possible to wire these so that they have electric frogs as well? Perhaps another clip on that.
thanks; good to see the hex juicer in operation, david
Wish we had known about the Hex Frog Juicer before completing the new extension to our club layout.
Thanks for another great report David. I have enjoyed this series and have always looked forward to the next segment. Lots of helpful hints and ideas.Keep up the great work.
Wayne Woodland
www.nottinghamsub.blogspot.com
Thank you. This was incredibly helpful and timely. I will be able to put this to use right away.
I built a movable work step based on the description of the one built by Jim Hediger in Bay Junction 3 & 4. My benchwork is 56" high so I built it from 2 x 10 lumber with a 3/4" plywood top. To make it more mobile, I installed 2 fixed casters with 2" wheels at the bottom corners of one end of the step with the wheels facing out and a steel handle at the other end. To move the step, I lift the one end by the handle until the casters at the other end make contact with the floor and then wheel the step around like a wheel barrow. When I have it in position, I lower the handle-end to the floor, the casters at the other end come off the floor and the step is in place for use.
David Popp did a very fine job of explaining on how to wire turnout frogs on the Bay junction project layout to prevent possible stalling of your locos. Keep up the good work Information is a necessary thing in keeping your model railroad running…
Hi David,
I’m very much enjoying the video series for building the Bay Junction section of the MR&T. I have a couple of questions for you about the Frog Juicers. Why have you selected to use them instead of wiring the frogs to the Tortoise switch machines? I noticed you have a Tortoise installed just above the Frog Juicer. Are not all of the turnouts controlled by Tortoises? Also, from reading the information about the Frog Juicers on Fast Tracks website, these little devices automatically change the polarity of the frog as a locomotive passes over the frog. I’m not sure what the purpose is then of changing the jumpers to have the polarity of the frogs aligned in a switch route. The polarity should automatically change no matter what the route is configured to. Please clarify.
Thanks again, and keep up the great work! This series has been very helpful for us amateur modelers.
Jon Z.
David, Runs very smooth, the juicer is a very nice ascessory, great information to know.
Thanks for explaining how to wire Peco Electrofrogs correctly. The instructions that come with the turnouts are not that easy to understand.
Have a curved turnout that shorts out a small steam engine> The fog is the culprit and this should solve my problem.
Very interesting. Looking forward to seeing the layout finished.
Outstanding, thanks very much for the informative videos they are a great help.