I would suggest you try to fit a #5 slip.
Enjoy
Paul
tomikawaTT wrote: Hypothetically, it would be possible to build a double slip switch with one "straight" route on a curve. However, a #6 frog on one end and a #4 on the other would imply a curve more suited to streetcars than to mainline trains.
Hypothetically, it would be possible to build a double slip switch with one "straight" route on a curve. However, a #6 frog on one end and a #4 on the other would imply a curve more suited to streetcars than to mainline trains.
Number 4 turnouts are awlful small four mainline use. One advantage of N-Scale is the ability to use longer and hence better looking turnouts.
As for the double slip switch, there is an old saying in the computer business, KISS. Putting two #3 wye turnouts point to point will give the same functionality as a #6 double slip with much less complexity. Unless you have a good number of hand laid normal turnouts under your belt, the double slip might be too big of a bone to chew. Of course, you could lay a #2 wye point to point with a #3 to get the configuration you seem to want. But as stated above, those turnouts are mighty sharp. Also, match out for "S" curve problems.
Have fun
OTOH, if BOTH routes are curved, in opposite directions, such a radical change might be possible.
Try laying out all the possible routes with flex track and running your rolling stock through them. If you can hold the worst curvature to your minimum radius or larger it will be possible to hand-lay the double slip you want. Possible, not easy. To make it easier, don't lock yourself into the use of numbered frogs. Just build to the track centerlines, and let the frog angles worry about themselves.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - on hand-built specialwork)
This won't work for the reasons previously stated. The only way you could get it to work to put in a straight section of track into the switch that would overcome the natural kink. I'm assuming if you had the room to do this, you wouldn't be trying to connect a #6 turnout to a #4 turnout to being with.
No. The angle HAS to be the same or you would put a kink right in the middle of the slip switch. Remember the slip switch is a crossing too. That would be like having a crossing where 1/2 was a 12 degr crossing and the other a 19 degr crossing. Nothing would line up.
Dave H.
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I'm in the final stages of designing my layout (Goodhaven Terminal, approx. 10'x10' in N) and need a dose of wisdom from others:
Is there such a thing as a mixed-angle slip switch? That is, a slip switch that is #6 on one end and #4 on the other? I'm looking at using such an item for entrance to an arrival/departure track -- basically it would be a #6 single crossover hybridized with a #4 turnout that would connect my switch lead to either the yard ladder or the A/D track.
I'm handlaying everything (Code 70), so finding one isn't the issue. The question is: is this feasible? Will it work? I think it will, but I also think I don't know everything....
Any help/suggestions/rants/insults (well, maybe not insults...) are welcome!
Peter A.
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