The “Give Tony Grief” Thread


Smudge617 said:
Oh OK. The CDU Tony has will power at least 12 switches at the same time, but I'm curious, you obviously know about CDU's, is there a reason they aren't used in the US, as Tony said, he couldn't find any, and I looked and couldn't find any either, are these some kind of specialist equipment not generally known about in the US since they are so hard to find?
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I've known about them for IDK 30 or 40 years just made my own I'm pretty sure the've been sold here I have an old book for electronic prjects for model rr's from 1974 it has a scematic for one in it
And I did look around for any being sold here none so far OOPS found one at Model train stuff a peco unit $32.99
 

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The biggest unsupported stretch of track work I have tried is about 18" with either end of the track well secured. It really does go to show that so long as your track is clean and relatively flat/level from side to side then you can run trains successfully :)
 
I run my Kato's over them - they are a pretty strong robust little engine. I inadvertently connected my track to the wrong side of things on my controller and catapulted my Kato Amtrak into the wall then a drop of about 3'. The little guy jumped up and wanted to go again ! :)

But yeah, I take your point and your most likely right :)
 
Just been revisiting the Ground Throw prospect and I can tell you now - they aren't worth the money. I got the hole size sorted out so they fit nicely over the Peco Throw Arm but they slipped on their own throw arm. The mechanism isn't strong enough to move the arm - so in short, they don't work and NO I will not remove the springs in perfectly good turnouts just to make something that doesn't work out of the box work.

So if anyone wants them let me know and they're yours.
 
I figured I had to do something to the layout today so here it is - one more length of flex track put in, complete with Drop Feeders :)

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After looking at the other end of this track work I concluded that a Wye wasn't going to work all that well and would cause the flex to be bent too much; as such, I ordered a large Curved Turnout for the "topside" of the layout that will give a constant radius for the track work. Truth be known, I should have used a curved turnout here as well.
 
wombat457 said:
I figured I had to do something to the layout today so here it is - one more length of flex track put in, complete with Drop Feeders :)



After looking at the other end of this track work I concluded that a Wye wasn't going to work all that well and would cause the flex to be bent too much; as such, I ordered a large Curved Turnout for the "topside" of the layout that will give a constant radius for the track work. Truth be known, I should have used a curved turnout here as well.
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Do you have room to bump the outer track radius out more, so the inner coming off the other leg won't have as much of a bend?
 
I assume we are talking about the rear of the layout and the Wye turnout there. A bit hard to explain - ahh, where I want to place the turnout would mean it would be the outer track whose radius was being restricted. The only way I could get around that (using a Wye) would be to locate it further along the track work which would reduce the length of the double track making it (almost) a waste. Using the curved turnout will allow me to locate it closer to the beginning of that track work, thereby extending the length of the double track.

Have I confused you ?
 
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