Great stuff, Mr Lunky, I wish I had known earlier! I built a stub switch
for the storage track on my ( A-Hem) 3-1/2" track. It works fine but I
wish I had known about the swivel rail instead of the frog! The cast one I
used took a coon's age of filing and trimming to get it smooth.
Sometime time, somehow, can you do a bit on your stub switches,
(particularly the swivel rail in SiTG?) Much easier to make for many of
us helpless old fogies. Fort Humboldt up here may have such a switch, I'll
have to check.
Geoff.
Instead of points, it works like a stub switch. The lead in rails move
>laterally to line up with either the thru track or the off track.
>At the location of the frog there is a swivel rail. By connected linkage, the
>swivel rail either aligns with the thru rails or the off rails.
>A turnout of this type was used in Australia on as narrow gauge line in the
>1800's.
>To the best of my knowledge there are six of them in existence today, and
>they are all the property of the SWAMP RR.
>If the turnout is properly aligned, there is no chance of derailing. There is
>no "Jump" at the place a frog should be.
>I have converted conventional turnouts to a frogless turnout and it works
>well. Eliminates the "LGB Bounce."
>Keep your steam up!
>Walt & Mr. Lunkenheimer
