Hi, It's me the pest again.  I heard (dreampt) about a way to add capacitors to the manual switches so if you lean on them, or like I did put a book on them you won't fry them (over easy, get it . Anyway, anyone heard of this beast? If so how's it hooked up? A schematic would be nice.

Oh, one other thing.  I ordered a couple of Lenz Stationary Decoders for the switches. I would like to keep my manual switches around as a backup.  There close to a yard! Any ideas about the combination?

Got to keep the forum flowing!

Bruce

Still working on the switch!

Another question though?  Where can I buy a Bachman stationary decoder part number 36-561 for my layout? This is quoted as being available in my Dynamis Ops manual.  Thank you.

Bruce

Hello all,
Since Bachman doesn't make track (I hope) I think I can drop a name here. I'm using Atlas 83 track and switches. I've got a problem with SOME switches. I only have two locos at the moment. I'm just getting into this hobby. A 3 truck Shay and a 40 ton GE switcher.  Both these locos have a problem on the curve side of the switch. When comming up the bottom toward the split and going to the curve the front trucks want to slide off the outer track slightly until they get to a point in the curve. Then the inner wheel of the truck will bump or jump. Sometimes going where it's supposed to.  Other times not. This is rather hard to explain without a picture! Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has had this problem and been able to solve it?  Thanks for any help you might be able to give.

Bruce