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Radius of N Peco Curved Turnout
Radius of N Peco Curved Turnout
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Itsed65
Member since
October 2005
From: Pt Richmond, Ca
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Radius of N Peco Curved Turnout
Posted by
Itsed65
on Monday, December 12, 2005 1:46 AM
Right now my trackplan is using an atlas #5 code 55 turnout, but I think a curved one would make things a lot simpler in one particular place. Does anyone know the approxomate radius of the Peco turnout? Any problems using them with Atlas Code 55 flex track? Thanks.
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pcarrell
Member since
February 2005
From: In the State of insanity!
7,982 posts
Posted by
pcarrell
on Monday, December 12, 2005 7:49 AM
I'm assuming that you are in N scale?
I'm not sure of the radius, but the Peco c55 is really c80 that is just buried in the ties further. They won't mate up unless you do some bending on your rail joiner. The other option would be to spike the rails in place and then use jumper wires to carry the current.
It can be done, but you can't just slap it together. It takes just a little more work then that. [8D]
Philip
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cuyama
Member since
December 2001
From: Northern CA Bay Area
4,387 posts
Posted by
cuyama
on Monday, December 12, 2005 4:16 PM
As was stated, with a little care in joining the tracks and shimming subroadbed, you should have no porblem mating PECO C55 to AtlasC55, though the PECO is actually Code 80 rail buried in the ties as has been mentioned.
The radius for the curved PECO C55 turnout is 18"/36", as found on this helpful page:
http://www.awrr.com/PECO.html
Regards,
Byron
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Itsed65
Member since
October 2005
From: Pt Richmond, Ca
26 posts
Posted by
Itsed65
on Monday, December 12, 2005 5:36 PM
Thanks for the link Byron, I was looking for something like that. I'm pretty sure with a solering iron and a file I can make it work [:D]
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Jacktal
Member since
October 2002
From: City of Québec,Canada
1,258 posts
Posted by
Jacktal
on Monday, December 12, 2005 8:28 PM
Loy's Toys website is also an excellent source of infos on Peco turnouts,like dimensions,angles,how to wire them,etc.
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