This thread is about the HO 3-way shorting. http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/p/257023/2878678.aspx#2878678 I don't know if the problems are the same between HO and N.
Your photo didn't work There is a thread in the General Forum on how to post photos. The link to the pic has to end in one of the usual picture extensions like .jpg
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I just installed and wired for DCC a Shinohara N scale three way turnout on My lout. The turnout came from old layout of Mine. I purchase the turnout in the 1983. Here Lies My Problem:
I first checked the turnout using DC power and the turnout checked out. Now I have installed on New Layout. I placed rail joiners on the two inbound stock rails and on the outside stock rails of the outbound left and right diveriging rails. The remaining outbound rails have insulated rail joints.
When I set turnout for thru passage, the locomotive passes over the first set of points, but when it comes upon the second point rails it stalls then shorts out. If I give the locomotive a slight nudge on the engineers cab window toward the firemen's side of the locomotive, the locomotive moves and continues on thru the turnout to mainline line. But when I postion the point for either the left or right diverging routes the locomotive Does Not stall out, It runs completely thru the turnout.
Have I wired the turnout wrong for DCC or are additional gaps requried? I checked the gaps at the first and second point rails and they out of spec.
I have enclosed a photo of the turnout on the layout.
I would greatly any Help.