Thanks Rene. I will check out the local shows and online to see if I can find those issues, and if not, will call Kalmbach. I seem to remember seeing an article on multigauge turnouts too, but cannot remember where I saw it. Hum...
Modeling the D&H in 1984: http://dandhcoloniemain.blogspot.com/
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
Pete Thornton wrote an article on building switches sometime around 1999 - 2001. He hangs out over on MyLargeScale.com, so you may have luck contacting him through there. His methods pretty much mirror the ones I used to build my switches, so I can vouch for their effectiveness.
Later,
K
scoobster28 wrote:The second link was great, but the first one wouldn't open for me.
Link Active -----> http://members.shaw.ca/sask.rail/construction/lsbuild/lsswitch.html
It's not THE article, but it's got some good tips:
http://members.shaw.ca/sask.rail/construction/lsbuild/lsswitch.html%22]%20Saskatoon
Lots of other neat stuff at that site.
Another good place:
http://www.bigriverlines.com/Modelmaker/Big_River_Lines_site/BRRR/Building_a_Switch/text.html#anchor293307
I was reading some of my old Garden Railways magazines from 1997, and Marc's articles on scratchbuilding track really appealed to me. I just began receiving the magazine last year, and bought some older years off of Ebay, but I don't have any magazines yet from 1999-2006. Did Marc ever write a followup article on how to scratchbuild switches? I have read articles in Model Railroader about building them in HO and other scales, but never in the larger scale. Is is similar? I know Barry Boggs and others cast their own frogs from epoxy, and that sounds interesting. Since I have such a big gap in my collection, I am lost as to whether articles in this area were ever published. Can someone help?
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