Powering Tenders

[cacole]

Another source of trouble that needs to be checked out is wheel flanges. If your locomotives have deep wheel flanges they could be causing the locomotive wheels to be lifted off of the rail as they pass through the frog. I have ran into this problem with some Rivarossi HO scale locomotives before they started using RP-25 contour wheel flanges. So-called European wheel flanges are so big that Rivarossi locomotives would not go through an Atlas turnout. Peco turnouts are the best because they have deep flangeways for these European wheel flanges, if you're modeling in HO scale.

[cacole]

Another source of trouble that needs to be checked out is wheel flanges. If your locomotives have deep wheel flanges they could be causing the locomotive wheels to be lifted off of the rail as they pass through the frog. I have ran into this problem with some Rivarossi HO scale locomotives before they started using RP-25 contour wheel flanges. So-called European wheel flanges are so big that Rivarossi locomotives would not go through an Atlas turnout. Peco turnouts are the best because they have deep flangeways for these European wheel flanges, if you're modeling in HO scale.

[joseph2]

I read that Atlas code 100 turnouts have a frog that is too high.It may Lift the engine up off the rail and cause a stall.

[joseph2]

I read that Atlas code 100 turnouts have a frog that is too high.It may Lift the engine up off the rail and cause a stall.