Hobo Jungle

[webenda]

Agree

Agree

Disagree.

Metal chassis is a short circuit.

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Chaos is viewpoint of a dedicated 3 railer. Insulated wheels, one outer rail hot, wiring for turnaround loops, metal turnout crossing point is a short circuit, etc., can be very confusing. None of those proplems when both outer rails are common.

So I just discovered.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I learn something every day , here.
Fa' real.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Chaos is viewpoint of a dedicated 3 railer. Insulated wheels, one outer rail hot, wiring for turnaround loops, metal turnout crossing point is a short circuit, etc., can be very confusing.

Gee... I thought you'd be able to figure out that putting all of the insulated wheels on the same side might be considered "positive",

[webenda]

Thought of it the moment Andre mentioned red hot couplers. Extrapolated from hot couplers to real hot boxes on a model train, but I was thinking of one truck getting turned 180, thus a possible hot steel center channel on my wood and metal Athearn kit. Maybe two rail trucks can't turn 180 like some three rail trucks? Yes, getting one axle turned 180 in the truck would be interesting also, even on a plastic model, especially in lead (Pb) trucks.
Case in point, this 6465 tank car is shipped with its trucks rotated 180 degrees--won't fit in the box otherwise.

Hey! Where's the couplers?

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[sarge]

Wayne:

In two rail, usually not unless the car is a hermaphrodite design that has the centre sill removed from the area of the bolsters so it can also be sold as a three-rail product.

Regarding the wiring et al for two rail, you of all people would not be my first choice for someone flummoxed by it all. Ten's of thousands of American HO guys armed only with chequebooks and Model Railroader magazines can't find this easier to understand than you, mate!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Regarding the wiring et al for two rail, you of all people would not be my first choice for someone flummoxed by it all. Ten's of thousands of American HO guys armed only with chequebooks and Model Railroader magazines can't find this easier to understand than you, mate!

A similar thought occurred to me.......

[webenda]

Now that I think about it, the coupler draft gear box also limits truck rotation on the one 2-rail car I am playing with.

Intimate knowledge of two rail track wiring helped in expressing my sentiment about it. My first layout was HO with Atlas fiber tie track and turnouts. I was pleasantly surprised when, years later, I got back into toy trains and found with 3-rail a train could go around a return loop, activate the non-derailing switch itself and return from whence it came with no frantic toggle switch throwing on my part.

[rogruth]

Wayne,

Not what any scale model railroader would say.

[webenda]

I am not one of them Roger.

[sarge]

Wayne:

If I remember correctly, both the Riv and the Roco/Atlas Plymouths are grossly oversized (to fit the mechs), so a fair comparison.

[healey36]

Even in N-scale the Plymouths (Lima) tend to be oversized:





Healey

[J. S. Bach]

Healey

HOn3?? (Or whatever N gauge scales out to in HO scale.)

[rex desilets]

unless the car is a hermaphrodite design that has the centre sill removed

Harsh, man, just harsh.

Ten's of thousands of American HO guys armed only with chequebooks and Model Railroader magazines can't find this easier to understand than you, mate!

...and bitched continuously about it.

[2railjon]

Did someone say Hat Day??????????
I'm in!!!!!!

[rogruth]

Hat? Hat? Where? Why?