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I'm busy enhancing some DCC-friendly HO turnouts, following Allan Gartner's excellent
website. Has anyone had experience performing similar solder connections on the double
crossover? Some locos are hesitating on it but the darn thing looks pretty complicated, so
I'm hesitating too.

Giles Goodhead

The double cross is not as bad as it looks. If you study the color
diagrams, you will see that it is simply four turnouts connected
together. It is nothing more complicated than that. If you treat it
as four individual turnouts, all will go well.

Allan

I have one and I found that the most important thing operationally is
to throw all 4 switches at the same time. That is all 4 crossed or
all 4 straight. This prevents any opportunities for funny thngs to
happen if a derailment should occur. There is no reason not to do
this either, you can only occupy one route at a time when crossing
over so crossing both ways makes no difference and you can't have one
route straight and one crossed.

Dale.


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<wire4dcc_admin@c...> wrote:

The double cross is not as bad as it looks. If you study the color
diagrams, you will see that it is simply four turnouts connected
together. It is nothing more complicated than that. If you treat it
as four individual turnouts, all will go well.

Allan

Giles,

You definitely don't need to solder any wires to the guard rails
around the frog.

I'm not sure how Walthers makes their frogs. I get good electrical
continuity when I measure a new turnout. If you want to be safe, you
can solder a wire in a "U" shape and attach it to both frog rails -
the rails leaving the frog. That's what I have to do on my
Pilz/Tilleg turnouts.

Allan