Hi everyone,
I have installed caboose industry 208S switch throws to my Atlas 21st century 3 rail track. I would like to know if anyone else is using them and if they have them lighted so that you can tell how the switch is thrown
Thanks, Paul
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I am using Caboose Industries ground throws in my yard area, I painted the top of the throw bar a bright red so that I could tell if the throw was flipped one direction or the other and that has helped a great deal. I have noticed that the opposite end of the shaft that throws the switch has a hole that could be used to opperate the lighted switch stands that Ross sells. The only problems I foresee is getting to the ground throw without hitting the light with you fingers and the second being the added distance from the rail to the lighted switch stand.
What I would love to see would be someone that would offer a lighted switch stand that when you turn it by hand, it also operates the switch.
Happy railroading,
Don
I use them too but have never thought of lighting them. I can see all my switches anyway so I know which way they're thrown.
I had one that the peg kept coming out of the RCS switch tie-bar so I cut the peg off, drilled a hole, and super glued a HO track nail where the peg used to be. It's worked fine since. The RCS tie bar was hanging a little low and was the reason the peg kept popping out of the hole.
Most of us that use the ground throws, use them because they are within reach and therefore easy to see. An easy indicator is to paint the end of the handle red on one side and green on the other.
I am using Caboose Industries ground throws in my yard area, I painted the top of the throw bar a bright red so that I could tell if the throw was flipped one direction or the other and that has helped a great deal. I have noticed that the opposite end of the shaft that throws the switch has a hole that could be used to opperate the lighted switch stands that Ross sells. The only problems I foresee is getting to the ground throw without hitting the light with you fingers and the second being the added distance from the rail to the lighted switch stand.
What I would love to see would be someone that would offer a lighted switch stand that when you turn it by hand, it also operates the switch.
Happy railroading,
Don
Most of us that use the ground throws, use them because they are within reach and therefore easy to see. An easy indicator is to paint the end of the handle red on one side and green on the other.
One way to activate lights for switch direction is to install tiny contact switches on the opposite end of the switch throw bar. Use a DPDT contact switch, you can build small lighted switch stands from plastic rod and install 2 colored LED lights and wire them up to the contact switch. Will then change color when thrown.
There were some Lifelike cheap sign sets that had a couple of small trackside light sets that would work.
One way to activate lights for switch direction is to install tiny contact switches on the opposite end of the switch throw bar. Use a DPDT contact switch, you can build small lighted switch stands from plastic rod and install 2 colored LED lights and wire them up to the contact switch. Will then change color when thrown.
There were some Lifelike cheap sign sets that had a couple of small trackside light sets that would work.
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