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PECO TURNOUTS

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PECO TURNOUTS
Posted by TrainsRMe1 on Friday, January 18, 2013 10:27 PM
Hi all,
Iam planning my classification yard for my layout, and I want to use Peco turnouts, my layout is in Nscale, so I should remember this but can anybody tell me the differents between a eletrofrog and a insufrog turnout??? Thanks for the info guys!!
Happy Rails: Trainsrme1


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Posted by richhotrain on Friday, January 18, 2013 10:55 PM

You should move this thread over to the MRR forums.

Rich

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:47 AM

Peco Insulfrog turnouts have an insulated frog, whereas the Electrofrog variant has a juiced frog, requiring some additional work when installing them. You need to insulate the rails following the frog and add some wiring.

Both types of turnouts are power routing.

The advantage of the Electrofrog turnouts is, that there is no interruption of power. This may come handy when you run locos with a short wheelbase.

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