There are even commercial versions of that method now - that's really all the Bluepoint and the Bullfrog are, slide switches with one rod that comes back to the fascia for control and a piano wire that goes up to the throwbar of the turnout. Certainly effective, you have contacts for frog power or whatever, and it's cheap. Only real downside is in a crowded area you will have an awful lot of knobs and it could get confusing what knob controls what turnout, but out on the main it's very obvious. And with things that pull out, in the aisle - there's a compromise on aisle space, plus easy to bump one back in.
I've seen another that uses a regular household light switch - those are certainly cheap enough. But rather large. Even before the slide switch method, there were choke cable controls - no contacts with those, and then also just where do you get such obsolete items, as even most lawn mowers these days no longer have a throttle on the handle, let alone a manual choke that is remotely controlled.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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rrinker You can get the complete setup, with the servo, already in a mount that installs like a Tortoise, with a switch for frog polarity, and the control circuit with both pushbuttons for local operation and a DCC decoder built in, for the cost of a bare Tortoise. --Randy
You can get the complete setup, with the servo, already in a mount that installs like a Tortoise, with a switch for frog polarity, and the control circuit with both pushbuttons for local operation and a DCC decoder built in, for the cost of a bare Tortoise.
Randy,
Curious - Do you have a link?
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
The caboose ground throws have a relatively new version that has a frog contacting system. You can always make a contact system for the frog too. Did you look at hump yard purveyance and thier armstrong levers using cables and links? Easy to add in a way to make a frog contact
Wolfie
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
trainnut1250 rrinker You can get the complete setup, with the servo, already in a mount that installs like a Tortoise, with a switch for frog polarity, and the control circuit with both pushbuttons for local operation and a DCC decoder built in, for the cost of a bare Tortoise. --Randy Randy, Curious - Do you have a link? Guy
The stuff I used before all came from Tam Valley Depot
http://tamvalleydepot.com/home.html
There are others. I haven't looked recently but it appears some of the prices have gone up. But the Micro Singlet II in 6 unit quantities couple with less than $2 each servos in 6 unit quantits comes out to like $15. The 'kit' version saves more, but don;t be scared by 'kit' - you solder on 2 LEDs and 2 pushbuttons!
LIONS like not electronic things on little pc boards. Him knows not what they do.
Him likes relays that snap with a click and him can see what they are doing.
Here is turnout control of LION and its associated relay room. Relays also manage block signals. (Home signals are of course operated directly by the levers.)
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS