Turnout replacements

@Tom Tee posted:

One by one I am replacing the turnouts on my 2 rail layout with Brad Strong's Signature switches.  These things are a work of beauty.  In gauge, dependable, silent,  reasonably priced, domestically based.  These are increasing my RR's  reliability with smooth and quiet frogs with no wheel drop.  Six turnouts are going in this weekend.  Plus he supplied soldered on color coded wire drops for my lazy ease.

Tom    Do you have a link on the turnouts?     I too plan on running my Pike on Battery power and RC,  and plan on building it outside. My philosophy has been to run the train, not the train layout, and I hate making turnouts

Just enter "Signature Switches" in your browser.  It should populate.

I made the mistake of discovering battery R/C half way through my build after accumulation a lot of track powered Proto-Sound powered locomotives and a lot of empty wire reels.  So I am married to both disciplines, marriage can be a stinker to exit.

@Tom Tee posted:

Just enter "Signature Switches" in your browser.  It should populate.

I made the mistake of discovering battery R/C half way through my build after accumulation a lot of track powered Proto-Sound powered locomotives and a lot of empty wire reels.  So I am married to both disciplines, marriage can be a stinker to exit.

I probably spent , half a life time , under a layout , wiring and I hated it.  With dead rail and Good sound , you can do every thing from N scale on up. That why I chuckle when I see the diehards clinging to the past, with their over prices DCC variants.  Thanks for the info on the switches

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I have a bunch on order for storage track expansion. I'm looking forward to getting them in place. The one I have looks to be very precise.

Can the battery handle a thirty-car train pulled by a 2-10-4, up and down 2% grades and for how long?

Thanks and Happy New Year!!!!!

Ed

ah!!      now I know who's big order he is finishing before he gets to my phase 3 switches   HE IS THE BEST THEY ARE BULLIT PROOF  !!!!!

Ed, Dunno, I do not have steep 2% grades.  However, just for the fun of it, I have been pulling a 21 car consist of 16 freights and 5 GGD 80'ers  up a 1 1/2% grade w/o appreciable drop in speed using a Weaver LV  4-6-4   My passing sidings are not that much longer.  I find long trains seem to visually shrink an indoor model RR.  Battery discharge was negligible.

Fault can be found with any extreme.  If someone wants to pull loads beyond a systems limits then maybe that system is not for them.  But then again on steep grades you could double head.   Again, dunno, don't care.

EDIT:  Ed, I forgot your layout is enormous, 30 hoppers may look at home being pulled round your RR.