the frogs are making me squiemish HELP

[conrail92]

ok all i have been hearing lately on forums is about frogs until littel while i didnt know they could cause problems. I heard that steam Loco's will stall out on them but when using dcc with Diesel loco's what kind of wiring do i need to do. And if you could can you some how put it in idiots terms ....no offense to myself... but it kinda confusing me and couldnt seem to find a answer.


Ps im sry if this has been asked before but i just cant seem to get it

 

[jbaakko]

If the tender has power pick up you should be fine. Its the length & lack of connection on plastic frogs...

 

[conrail92]

so as long as im using diesel locos and front and rear has power im fine?

 

[TrainboyH16-44]

Should be perfectly fine with diesels with both trucks powered...

 

[RexHea]

On DCC "friendly" turnouts, the frog does not have power on it to prevent possible shorts, but it usually isn't very long. Most all the new locos have all-wheel power pickup and shouldn't give you any problems. This means that you will be picking up power even though you have a couple of wheels on the dead frog. I have some very short switchers that make it just fine and all my steamers do also.

 

[conrail92]

ok thnx for the help

 

[HaggisKennedy]

I use Atlas Custom #4s and #6s, and the only problem loco I ever had was any 4-6-2 steamer. For some reason, they never liked them.

The other problem I have/had was if the turnouts were in a ladder formation or in consecutive positions (one after another). Then, some 4-axle diesels may stall on them because the distance between frogs just happened to be the distance between the trucks. And, that's a bad coinkey-dink....



Kennedy

 

[JeffShultz]

Kennedy,
I've got just about that spacing on my mainline in a very busy section - I try and keep that track very clean.

 

[HaggisKennedy]

Yeah, me too. But, when they stall out, I look really, really closely, and it always seems to be the power trucks sitting on the unpowered frog....



Kennedy