O gauge and s gauge 90 degree crossing

[Hammer53]

My father in law and I are trying to merge his American Flyer S gauge trains with my O gauge trains to one lay out.  We would like to have the s gauge track cross over the o gauge track on a couple of places. I'm think a hybrid 90 degree crossing would do the trick. However I don't want to reinvent the wheel so I was wondering if anyone makes such an item. If not is there any information out there on fabricating something like this. 

[rtraincollector]

I doubt it but you could give Gargraves a try as they do some multiple guage track pieces but there in flex but I know they do some cross overs also but don't think what you want but you could always ask them

[lionelsoni]

I think it might not be difficult to cut a 3/8-inch strip out of the middle of one path through an O-gauge crossing and to glue the halves back together, to remove the center rail and narrow the gauge from 1 1/4 inches to the 7/8 inches needed for S gauge. 

[jwse30]

If I remember right (and I don't have a 90 degree crossing on me to verify), all the outer rails are tied together with a flat piece of tin under the plastic base. If he removed the 3/8" from the middle of one path as suggested, he would also need to ensure that the remaining rails were not tied to the outer rails of the other path and the two halves of the S path would have to be tied back together. Adding a power feed to either side of the crossing would solve that problem. 

 

This does seem like a pretty simple conversion. I do have Lionel and American Flyer trains. Hmmm....

 

J White

 

[jprampolla]

Hi Hammer53,

    CTT published an article back in July of 2007 on building an S and O gauge crossover in GarGraves, but it was more like a 45 degree angle.

Hope it helps!

Take care, Joe.

 

 

[Hammer53]

Joe,

Thank you. I didn't have that issue in my archive but was able to order it last night. Thank you for your help. 

 

Rob

[jprampolla]

Hi Hammer53,

      It was my pleasure!  Let me know if you have any problems with the project.

(I run a large S gauge loop with my O gauge layout, and that was my crossover technique that CTT published.)

Take care, Joe.

 

[lionelsoni]

I just got out an old 1020 Lionel O27 crossing, which has a 2-inch stretch of plastic rails in the middle.  If that's not too much of an unpowered section for the S-gauge locomotives, there's no reason to go to the trouble of using powered metal rails in the diamond.  Except for the wiring underneath, all 12 rails of the 1020 are separate from each other.  The more modern versions seem to be similar.