Posted By SE18 on 03/25/2008 8:44 AM
Within a month, I'll be building 2 of these turnouts. They do not have points and do not in any way move. They are just to divert the NG off the mainline bridge at 2 locations so there will just be frogs and rail cuts where the divergence occurs. Hoping someone might have photos or tips. Scale is 7/8 and gauges are 2' and 18". Rails will be 250 for both gauges.
We used to call them "escapes", as one gauge escapes from the dual gauge.
I uploaded drawings of some F/Fn3 escapes.
Click here for the .JPG (which is a bit fuzzy)
Click here for a 5-page PDF of a #6 escape with the drawing at full size.
There's an interesting problem with a dual gauge 'wye' which needs a sort-of escape (from Hilton's book.)
I probably have an escape (gauge 0 escaping from gauge 1) stored in my garage along with all this track:
Email me offline if you want any of the pieces - this layout was torn up when we moved to the condo..