If you're in HO scale, the Atlas bridges will work just fine with EZ track. If you're installing them permanently, all you have to do is snip off the plastic connectors to the EZ track and they'll mate right up with the Atlas.
Here's a photo of my Turner Canyon bridge on my Rio Grande Yuba River Sub. It's an Atlas truss connected to EZ wide-radius track. As you can see, it works just fine.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
twhite wrote: Here's a photo of my Turner Canyon bridge on my Rio Grande Yuba River Sub. Tom
Here's a photo of my Turner Canyon bridge on my Rio Grande Yuba River Sub.
Tom, are those semaphore signals operational?
Mark
Mark--
Wish they were. They're lit, but stationary. They originally came with contacts for operation, but they snapped back and forth so violently that the screws holding the blades came loose and the blades went flying all over the place. So I removed the contacts and just left them more 'for show'. One of my projects in the future is to put in an operating signal system and find a 'slo-mo' control for the semaphores. It should be interesting, because I'm a TOTAL electronic Doofus, LOL!
twhite wrote: Mark--Wish they were. They're lit, but stationary. They originally came with contacts for operation, but they snapped back and forth so violently that the screws holding the blades came loose and the blades went flying all over the place. So I removed the contacts and just left them more 'for show'. One of my projects in the future is to put in an operating signal system and find a 'slo-mo' control for the semaphores. It should be interesting, because I'm a TOTAL electronic Doofus, LOL!Tom
Ditto, Tom. I'm sophomoric about electronics when it gets beyond "connect the black and white wires separately to the individual rails."
Of course you know a slow-motion machine (Tortoise-like) to power the semaphores would work (with special circuitry if you want three positions). That makes it quite expensive, let alone the detection system. While I've read chapters on railroad signaling, it still leaves me with questions on how the prototype worked and how to model it realistically. Seems to me that emulating a CTC system would be simplest because the signals would be under manual control, but what do I know?
At least station order signals are straightforward. These can be controlled with a couple of simple switches, manually operated, to control two slow-motion machines for each signal mast. I anticipate that is as far as I'll ever go with signalling. I've got the parts, but not the layout yet.