Is 2 Rail Atlas 148 track the same gauge as 3 Rail O gauge track...
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Yes, just different rail height. I use both plus the Atlas/Roco track from the 1970s.
Yes, I'm running all my 3-rail engines (all center rollers have been removed) and rolling stock on Micro-Engineering/Atlas/Signature Switch Code 148 2-rail track components. ALL BPRC of course
I thought the pizza-cutter flanges would bottom out but they don't. When I ordered my #6 switches from Brad at Signature Switch I told him what I was doing. He said he would allow for the 3-rail wheels, but I don't know what if anything he did. I don't see anything that sticks out telling me "3-rail only".
Excellent switches by the way. I tried building my own and after seeing how well his worked I replaced all my homemade ones with his. You get what you pay for, quality and non-problematic operation.
Here's some 3-rail rolling stock on old Atlas 2-rail switches...with a third rail added. Basically the only thing I did was to remove the guard rails adjacent to the frogs. These switches connect to standard 027 tubular, which I adapted by soldering an 027 track pin to the Atlas rail joiner (not the Atlas O ones in the photo, but the flat 1970's style ones that look like oversize HO scale joiners)
---PCJ