Hi, new to this and hope this is not a dunb question, but I was thinking of running a trolley on my O scale layout, would like to cross over my fastrack and saw they make a grade crossing with superstreet, will that keep the trains seperate, and not link them as one??? Also is there a way to to stop one if the other is there??? Thought it would be cool to run the streets through the layout....Thanks JB
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It has been a while since I saw a photo of the SuperStreets/FasTrack grade crossing, but I remember the street rising to the rail crossing. If that's the case, it might be a problem for some trolleys other than the single-truck Birney's.
If that's the case and you want a level crossing, you might want to put a couple of FasTrack-to-SuperStreets adapters back-to-back around a SuperStreets at-grade crossing. This would provide a wider grade crossing which you could fill with street material for your die cast automobiles on either side.
Matt has a good idea, but if you go that route make sure you can electrically
isolate the SS from the fast track power. ( I'm not sure is you can or cannot
with fast track crossovers )
I've used the standard SS crossing and just about everything works with it.
It does bounce a little as Matt said.
If you want to have the trolley stop when a train is crossing there are also
many way's of doing that. The cheapest way is probably the isolated rail route.
Other wise go with some kind of motion detector.
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