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From: petemster
. ./ . . When operating American Models' locomotives with AM switches are
scale wheels better than high-rail wheels, or vice-versa?. . . . . . . .
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Highrail.
American Models track, including the turnouts, is made with "code 148" rail.
That means it is made with rail 0.148 inches high. In a scale of 1/64, that
would represent rail about 9½ inches high. The highest rail known to man in
the real world was 8 inches high. The purpose of AM's over-scale rail is to
accomodate tinplate (AF) and highrail wheels.
Scale wheels will not run reliably thru AM switches.
tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich USA
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