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Posted by wedudler on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 12:56 PM

Now I've finished my fiddle yard. A fiddle yard needs a rerailer. Here's the video.

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Posted by markpierce on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 2:19 PM

Alright!  Now share your secret.

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Posted by wedudler on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 3:17 PM

markpierce
Alright!  Now share your secret.

 

What do you mean? There's no secret.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 3:24 PM

 Great job Wolfgang. I've got a homemade rerailer that looks very similar to that and works just as good.

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Posted by Whisper on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 3:42 PM

Great idea.  That looks great, it integrates into your layout nicely.

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Posted by IVRW on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:26 AM
That was a very Unique idea.

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Posted by selector on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:55 PM

Very nifty, Wolgang.  The rails are wide of gauge and then narrow slowly to force the wheels up onto the rails, but they are helped with the stripwood inserted between the rails as they come to gauge.

I had a scratched rerailer built on my first layout, and it was part of a grade crossing.  I just carved the various pieces of stripwood so that they closely mimicked the plastic EZ-Track rerailer/terminal section.  I don't mind saying it worked reasonably well. Big Smile

Nice video, Wolfgang, and of course the layout is exceptional.

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Posted by markpierce on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 1:26 PM

Wolfgang, received your railroad pass the other day.  Very nice.  Since my GF has relatives in Limburg less than 100 miles south of you, I may have an opportunity some time to make use of it.

Mark (whose own pass, still available for exchange, is for a now-abandoned layout)

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Posted by wedudler on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 1:29 PM

markpierce

Wolfgang, received your railroad pass the other day.  Very nice.  Since my GF has relatives in Limburg less than 100 miles south of you, I may have an opportunity some time to make use of it.

Mark (whose own pass, still available for exchange, is for a now-abandoned layout)

 

Great, I'm waiting to meet you. And we can run some trains.

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Posted by HaroldA on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:56 AM

Great idea!!  Hope you don't own the patent....

There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....

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Posted by wedudler on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:56 PM

 I own not a single patent.

But I know when I showed at a FREMO meeting in 1987 my manual operated push-pull turnout actuation, no one had seen it before.

And when I showed my operating gates at Naumburg it was new too.

And it's good to see in which way others develop this idea. I like to look under the modules at FREMO meetings.

Wolfgang

 

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