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Power Routing Turnouts

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Power Routing Turnouts
Posted by woodview3 on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 7:27 PM
Who Makes a power Routing turnout?
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Posted by larak on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:41 PM

 woodview3 wrote:
Who Makes a power Routing turnout?

(Assuming HO here)

Shinohara used to in code 100 

I believe Peco does.

Check for an all metal frog. An insulated frog will not be power routing, a metal frog may be power routing.

Why would you WANT such a beast? Many of us have converted our older ones to "DCC friendly" even on DC layouts. 

Karl 

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Posted by Driline on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 10:26 PM

 woodview3 wrote:
Who Makes a power Routing turnout?

Walthers code 83 makes power routing turnouts. At least the old ones were. I use them on my DCC layout. No problems. I also have DCC friendly turnouts as well. Either works well for me.

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Posted by woodview3 on Thursday, February 7, 2008 2:53 PM

Hey! I learn something every day. Thank you all.

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Posted by DeadheadGreg on Thursday, February 7, 2008 9:36 PM
whats the easiest way to go about making turnouts DCC friendly?   I'm going to be using regular DC power, but i'm assuming that non power-routing turnouts are going to be easier to deal with, yes?
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