saw these on the atlas site... they look great !!! would make lovely mainline crossovers...with 1.25" spacing. hmm, looks as though the frog is the same plated alloy as the other TOs. still, i think the custom TO guys are gonna have to move up to 12's and more now
Too cool. One thing I saw is that the metal piece that feeds power to the frog is not coated or blackened with anything. I thinks thats good because I could never get a good solder joint on the coated ones without filing away the black stuff down to the metal. Eric
With my lack of prior experience, I have to ask the folks that have used C55 - do the standard wheels (pizza cutters) run all right on these? I don't want to start the wheel war again, but I have my own reasons for staying with the wheelsets I have and would like to be able to use #10's at some point in the future.
2 years too late for me. So now I have to replace all my main line turnouts???!!!! I see a work window in my future... Brian
no pizza cutters on atlas code 55. I even bought a couple packs of track to try my stuff on it. My newest locos are fine. My life like locos from mide 90s no good, my 1989 atlas (made by kato) no good either.
Yes, I caught that news on the A site and timing is pefect as I am still working on the new layout design. They are also supposed to be following this with a larger (3.5) wye.( the current c55 wye is a 2.5)
Seems this comes just in time. I'm in need of some turnouts, and these number 10's look much better than the three ME #6's I have. But, does Atlas C55 track fit with ME C55 track?
This is exactly why I "switched" ( ) to Atlas code 55 several years ago. I was anticipating a superior selection of products and felt it worth the investment (not trivial) of changing out all my MT pizza cutters. Glad I did! My next module will definitely include a crossover with these and tortoise machines. I'm now officially motivated. Carl38 - I've directly mated Atlas C55 to ME C55 without incident. I think the Atlas joiners work better for this.
