Would some please let me know what the track pictured is for.
Thanks in advance
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Mike.
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From what I can see, Tyco part number 15665 is simply a nine inch long straight track section with brass code 100 rail.
A picture would sure help.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Thanks Mike
Audioquesttrack pictured is for.
Russell
I think this is a better picture of the track in question. Apparrently the number 15665 is cast onto the ties on all nine inch straight sections so this and normal track sections have the same part number. This one just has the uncoupler piece attached to it.
As Russel stated, this track is an uncoupler for horn-hook (NMRA, X2F) couplers used on Tyco train set rolling stock.
This is the OP's pic. Not really a useful piece of track for most modelers these days.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Now a days, well soon to be some day train show, I hope.
I could see a vender at a train show listing that piece of track as ''vintage/rare track''. I wonder what the asking price would be?
SeeYou190A picture would sure help.
Audioquest's picture showed-up just fine when I clicked on the link.
Wayne
Beleive those worked with original Kadee's too (the ones made with the straight pins before the magnetic type).
Now there is something I'd forgotten about - uncoupling ramps for horn-hook (X2F) couplers. Some were integral with a piece of track like this one; Penn Line had a "portable" one made of metal and plastic that could be (in theory) snapped between the ties of sectional track.
I had both kinds.
Neither worked.
Neither worked for a variety of reasons, one of which is that not all makes of horn hook couplers had long enough pins at the bottom to engage the device meant to separate them. The other is that there was no uniformity in the amount of spring tension of horn hook couplers - some were very "soft" and easily moved, some fought you every inch of the way. And to be truthful, those of us who learned to be militant about getting the height of Kadee couplers exactly right usually were nowhere near as fussy with our hornhooks. If Athearn or Crown or Tyco or Lindberg mounted the thing, that was the height we lived with. While the horn hook had many faults I suspect one reason we found Kadee magnetic knuckle couplers to be such a huge improvement from an operational perspective (there was no debate about appearances) is that we took mounting them so much more seriously -- perhaps because we had paid so much more for them! Plus Kadee had the inspired idea to manufacture their coupler height jig - I recall no such thing for horn hooks.
Dave Nelson
IIRC the one pictured snapped into place, so could be added to any of their straight tracks. They did have one that had an uncoupler that came connected to a rerailer section - one of those made to look like a grade crossing.