roco H0e v fleishmann n track

[jimowers]

However If I were you I would wait until the electrofrog version of the 9 inch point is available. (1Y to 18 months perhaps??)

Brian Meldon

I am investigating a couple more options for the fiddle area point motors before making a decision. It can wait for a while as it is not yet affecting the critical path of the project.

However, I have gone with the Insulfrog 9 inch points already and they are glued down and working just fine. With the working that I am doing on the layout they are perfect and I am surprised more people do not think of using these Setrack units. There are so many scare stories and 'tablets of stone' stating that "thou shalt only use Electrofrog" that it perhaps scares people away but let's not churn up that old ground here yet again please. I cannot wait 18 months for another promised point to come along as my build schedule is one layout per year as it has for the last 10 years!

Peco have made the point ( :-*) several times that they did a lot of work to make these 9 inch units as OO9 friendly as possible and they are certainly proving so on the layout so far. At Colehill I met another OO9er who had chosen the Minitrains equivalent and was much less satisfied with those so I am sticking to these. I have never been let down by Peco when it comes to trackwork. The Setrack ones appear to do everything that I want for an exhibition layout. The fact that they are simpler to install and wire is a great bonus for me. I am a firm believer in the KISS principle.

[B.Meldon]

It is always up to each individual as to what points to use, but with more than 30 years of experience with 009 there is no way that I would take the retrograde step to have a dead frog of any type on a 009 layout. I have seen just too many very good layouts ruined with locos stalling on dead frogs at slow speeds.

Peco had good reason for changing the original 9 inch 009 points from dead to electrofrog in the 1970

[jimowers]

You are entitled to your point of view of course but I should point out, especially to anyone new to the forum, that there are alternatives. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Insulfrog points and in many situations they work perfectly, especially with modern chassis like those from Minitrains and Lilliput.

It is about time someone gave an alternative point of view on this forum because there are as many 'right' answers as there are people contributing. I also have a significant history of layout building with over ten layouts to my name and extensive experience of track work with absolutely no failures so far. Whatever point I have used There have been no failures with much of the track being used under exhibition conditions.

I will continue to support another excellent Peco product - the Setrack 9 inch Insulfrog point - and viewers will see the results working perfectly on my Woolthorpe Light Railway in the near future when it is completed.

[Allscales]

Oh yes, I should have mentioned that Roco point can have a wire soldered to the frog from the bottom. I've done this for all of mine, it's precise work but it pays off...

[David Gee]

There are two types of Fleischmann N gauge track