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Rich
Alton Junction
Throwing a power routing switch may be cutting off power to the section of track that the train is on. If you are using Peco switches are they the insulfrog or electrofrog type? Electrofrog switches need insulated joints on both of the frog rails and you may need more track feeders to provide power to all the track whatever position the switch is in.
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Would be glad to start a new thread. How? I'm new at this. Can't figure how to reach the home for this forum.
Yeah, I think this thread was best left dormant.
Copeia,
A suggestion. You would be better off, if you started your own new thread with a title like: ''Atlas plastic frog turnouts, help'' You will get more help that way than tagging on to a thread that is basically dead. Along with your questions, add along with the code 100 snap-switches, what does the rest of your track consist of, sectional? Flex Track?
Take Care!
Frank
Hi,
I have (like) engines with short wheelbases and want to buy more!!!!!! I like to run them slow for switching on my 4x8 double loop DCC of 14 Atlas code 100 snap switches with plastic frogs. I have or had installed sound decoders in all engines. Obviously, I like to hear the start, idling and running of all the different prime movers with loads. I also like ( a very distant second) weathering. My rdc, gp9 and covered wagons run my track as if it is one contiuous piece of straight track but every time my short wheelbases cross turnouts, they hesitate or stop and then restart. It is very frustrating.
How do I wire the turnouts for the 2-4-0, 2-6-0 and 1st gen deisels, or do I replace the turnouts or will I have to double head the shorties which I can do but then how do I handle the galloping goose for mail delivery to all structures, even the stockyard? The turnouts are my one stumbling block. I'm comfortable with everything else. I've searched youtube and David's excellent vids
All suggestions will be carefully considered. I know I could eliminate the turnouts but part of the fun is carefully listening for the wheel clack at crossings. Brings back a lot of childhood memories of the early 40s (like the xmas card of frost and snow when you've hardly seem a significant amount of snow lasting longer than maybe three days).
Thanks
copeia
Does the train stop when it enters the new route, or does it stop when you throw the turnout points?
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sergentbinkoohi I'm sergentbinkoo I am having some problems with my turnouts stopping my train when I switch them its a oval track with semi oval I would really like some help please please please.
I agree about the diagram.
He's throwing his turnouts manually and they are probably power routing, when he throws one, it shorts out because the other will have a different polarity. He need's insulated joiners. Even though it is an oval....always beware of the ''dogbone''.
I wish that the OP could provide a drawing.
Sounds like an oval within an oval.
In other words, sounds like an oval with a left and right turnout. If so, no reverse loop.
What type of turnouts, Atlas, Peco?
sergentbinkooIt is an oval with half circle in the middle and the switches are hand operated and the train will only run on the outside track and cant even get close to going round the half circle, and when I throw a switch the train stops on the outside circuit and will not move at all
Sounds like you have a loop of track in the middle of the oval that is accessed by switching off the main oval. If the center loop comes around and connects back to itself before returning to the oval, that is what is called a return loop. All return loops must have isolation gaps and some means to switch polarity so the train can exit without shorting out.
If that sounds like what you have, then please confoirm and we'll try to get it sorted out for you.
Also confirm whether you are using DC or DCC for power. The solutions are somewhat different depending on what you use for power.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Mark,
Yeah, I agree with You there too!
I'm gonna guess he has power routing Peco switches ....
Mark.
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Sounds to me that his power pack is not big enough to run his switch machines and his train at the same time, slowing it and almost stopping every time he trys to throw a switch. That would be my guess as to what he's asking. Either that he created a reverse loop with his half oval. In any event more info is needed.
Hi. and welcome.
You're probably going to have to provide more information in order for us to give you concise advice.
A "an oval track with a semi oval" sounds like maybe a reverse loop. Does the train exit a turnout going one direction then reenters the same turnout later going the opposite direction? If so, Google search "reverse loop wiring"
Or, you could also have a very short wheelbase locomotive that is getting stopped by the short pieces of the turnout where there is usually no power, the v shaped frogs.
Or, you could simply have defective turnouts (although not likely ALL of them)
A little better description of your situation is needed, I'm afraid.
- Douglas
You probably have a loose rail joiner somewhere. Probably two of them on the same rail.
Park the train on the "dead" section of track, and touch each rail joiner with a key or something. When the train moves, you have found a joint that needs to be fixed. Of course there is the fact that there is a second gap hiding in there, otherwise the power would come in from the other end. So before you fix that gap and while the train is still stalled, look for a second problem on the same rail.
If the problem is in the switches, as it might well be, then we will need more info.
WHERE are you attaching your power. If the wires are attached to the tracks on the loop where the train is not stalled but is isolated by the switches, then that is your problem. You need to put the power on from the common side of the oval, which both routes will always use.
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I would love to help but it would be very helpful if you could tell us what type of turnouts/Track you are using !(Peco,Atlas, Shinohara,Tilig,Bachmann ezy track)
Are you running DCC or DC ? Have you installed feeders on your track .
The more info you can provide the better!!
BTW Welcome to the forum !!!