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Not to get too personal, but your colon was mislocated...
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Pic #5 looks like an old school(?) transistor if those are 3 legs in each. If there's any with 4 legs, those are usually bridge recitifiers.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
So as I said above, if it looks like a rail joiner, it is a rail joiner, even if someone wants to call it a fishplate.
The SW-51 (61?) extra contacts are for the switch machines that NJI used to sell. I think I said that above, also.
The SM-106 Scale-Like Industries things are slow motion turnout motors. They are in all probability re-purposed Hankscraft display motors. Similar items were sold by an outfit called Electro-plumbing and I think one or two others.
maxmanSo as I said above, if it looks like a rail joiner, it is a rail joiner, even if someone wants to call it a fishplate.
Oh, I agree completely. A rail joiner is a completely different kettle of fish...
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Something to mull over.
On the PRR I heard tie plates called fishplates.On Chessie(C&O) they was called tie plates.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
#1 are optical detectors. They know when a train is over them because it blocks the ambient light. Used in crossing or block detection generally.
#3 are replacement relay points. For what particular relay, I can only guess.
#5 are transistors. If you have access to a transistor testor, you can figure out if they are pnp or npn. All kinds of applications for those. I love old transistors like these because each of those is one transistor, but your smart phone has trillions of the same thing in it.
BRAKIESomething to mull over. On the PRR I heard tie plates called fishplates.On Chessie(C&O) they was called tie plates.
Larry,
That's a good example of regional or even RR-specific variation in terminology.
The package of "fishplates" says "used in Kit No. 709" I checked the Mantua catalogs on the HOseeker site. Did not find Kit No. 709. In the 1955, 1959 and 1960 catalogs kits 701 through 706 are truss bridges.
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No. 707 and 708 are "Circuit Breaker Kits" Found 709 on a list "Fishplates, envelope 100" - No help!
There are several lists of 4 digit part numbers. While "5616" does not appear on any of them. It is obviously a renumbering of "709"
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
Hobbez#3 are replacement relay points. For what particular relay, I can only guess.
For the third time, I believe that they are extra contacts for the switch machines that NJI used to sell. You can see some installed on the machines at the following link: https://www.google.com/search?q=nj+international+switch+machine&rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS443US443&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_0UaVPGWFYqhyAS2x4D4CQ&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=579