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Just finished up a pair of Bitter creeks new Hon3 box cars Very nice kits. The only change I did was to replace the kit roof walk with stripwood John Peckham Southern California

Personally, I'd tossthe Shino points, for two reasons: 1. The frog gaps are enormous, sized for HO standardgauge wheels. Our narrower tires drop down the frog gap and makethe vehicles visibly

Re the keeper box, a similar fixture is molded into the head block of the PBL stub turnout. I used spikes as limiters on the Railway Engineering 3 way. Larry Klose

Re switch stand connection, I haven’t got there yet. I’m holding the stands until I get most of my scenery and buildings installed. It’s too easy to “clear the deck“ while working with my

The Tam Valley 3 way board allows adjustment of the throw from the servo. Indeed, they do buzz when adjusted too firmly against the stops. On a three way stub, the center adjustment is done the same

Attached is a TinderCad screenshot of the keeper box. This is glued under the ties with the two top tabs sticking up on the outside of the rails with the split between the turnout and the moving

John, Thank you for your response. I have some thinking to do! If/when I come up with my final, and successful, effort I will post tot he group. With cinders in your eyes, Bruce 419-602-3584

Bruce In principal, you can take a rod off of your locking spring and use it to throw a lever at the base of your mast. rotating it from 45 degrees to 135 degrees relative to the rod. Which is just

Well said Doug, was wondering the same as I try and convert trucks to HOn30. I have a n30 Heisler I would like to put to work...

Doug Quickest solution might be to provide Grandt compatible axles for Kadee's wheels. It is possible that the existing Grandt axles have a compatible wheelseat, but if not, it should not be too

Interesting, Bruce, can you share a photo? Mike Conder

With regard to 9g servos 'beating' against the stops. My limited experience with these servos indicates that they will 'buzz' if the force reaches a certain level. They have enough power to move

I use a 3D designed and printed "keeper" under my turnouts to hold the over center spring mounted under the turnouts to keep the spring from over time falling out. I have tabs on the top of the

Larry (and Group), I am in the process of converting to DCC friendly 30 +/- old but never used Shinohara HOn3 code 70 turnouts. As part of the conversion I replace the metal bar that connects the

My bad. The Tam Valley board uses DC to power the servo but an accessory DCC decoder for other functions, such as signal lights in the semaphore or signals connected to the board. It’s been long

I have 11 Sn3 code 55 stub prefab turnouts, originally developed by Tomalco and still marketed by PBL. Installation is slightly more difficult than point turnouts because the (partially self

Yes, It's Colorado Rail Annual #11. It has 3 chapters 1- Narrow Gauge in New Mexico 2- Otto Perry by Kindig 3- Train Time in Ouray by Gordon Chappell. Well Over half of the 251 pages are on

Scott thanks for the Tam Valley Depot link. i was curious about how you stop the switch machine (your 9g servos)at the right place. Russ is using pins soldered on the side of the outside fixed

Scott, Maybe because at my age I don't see as well as I once did, but the movement of ties is barely perceptible to my eyes. And allowing the ties to slide a little eliminates the need to find a way