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Andy S - Medium Peco's - N scale

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Andy S - Medium Peco's - N scale
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 8, 2003 9:09 PM
I was re-reading your layout design for a an L shaped passenger station. In a side bar, you talk about how HO medium Peco turnouts are good for staging. Is this true in N scale as well?
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Posted by Sperandeo on Friday, May 9, 2003 9:47 AM
I would think so, although the only experience i have with them was on Gordon Odegard's N scale Clinchfield layout, and we didn't run passenger trains there. The Peco catalog gives a radius of 18" for the curved side of these turnouts, and in N scale that's pretty generous.

So long,

Andy

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 10:12 PM
I have a friend in an N-trak club and she swears by Peco turnouts. I am planning to start a layout and she told me Peco turnouts never fail.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:40 PM
"Never" and "ever" are awfully long times. Do Peco turnouts "never" fail? This is a myth, they do fail, or for me at least do give problems. But I still use and love Peco turnouts. Where you can have problems is at the points touching the rail. I might attach feeders or jumpers to the points, this time around. The Titanic was "never" going to sink, McCormick center in Chicago would never burn (it burned down in three hours) - don't believe "never" and "ever" statements... lol!

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