Tonight I got the last of the turnouts shimmed on the south side of the layout from Winnfield to the three south turnouts in El Dorado yard. As I added the shims to each one I kept a car handy to test the shims. The car told me that the shims are working and are keeping the car from picking the frog points, but then came the true test......I ran the same train that I ran the other night that found three shorts. It has two KATO E8's on the point and several Trainworx 85' TOFC's with metal wheels in the consist.
NO SHORTS!!!!
Now this was just a test, so we'll see how it goes during an actual session?
Before starting on the rest of the turnouts I'm waiting for an order to arrive from MB Kleins in the next few days. The sly Mr. D. Foxx who follows the blog left me a comment asking if he could talk me into using Black styrene to shim the turnouts instead of the white? This way when I clean the tracks I won't be left with two white stripes.
D'oh!
On the ones that I have done now I went back with a black Sharpie. Hopefully this will help as the guard rails are slightly below the railhead? So now I have some sheets of 0.010" thick sheets of black styrene coming along with new blades.
The obvious things are always overlooked.....
Good to see an old fix still works.
ReplyDeleteRod.
You bet! So far so good. I just got some black styrene in the house today and the last 6 in El Dorado are glued, looks a lot better.
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