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I just purchase a box lot of HO train accessories at a auction. Among other things there were 4 pieces in individual boxes of Silvine automatic trip track NO. 4118. The track is 9" long with 2 screws on one side of the track for electrical hook up. There are no instructions I can't post pics of them because I can't get my camera to focus correctly. I was wandering if anyone knew what these tracks were for and how to use them.
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Possibly to activate signals I do have a Signal bridge by them
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I just purchase a box lot of HO train accessories at a auction. Among other things there were 4 pieces in individual boxes of Silvine automatic trip track NO. 4118. The track is 9" long with 2 screws on one side of the track for electrical hook up. There are no instructions I can't post pics of them because I can't get my camera to focus correctly. I was wandering if anyone knew what these tracks were for and how to use them.

Originally posted by yardmaster54 - February 19 2017 :  8:21:23 PM



At last, pics of the above mentioned track. Any ideas on what it is used for?
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Probably weight changes light when train goes over it
Had signals by Takara once
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Trip Track - is when you trip over a box of track that you left in the middle of the floor for just a minute!
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Trip Track - is when you trip over a box of track that you left in the middle of the floor for just a minute!

Originally posted by microbusss - July 02 2018 :  10:55:33 PM



That would be a trip box
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Trip Track - is when you trip over a box of track that you left in the middle of the floor for just a minute!

Originally posted by microbusss - July 02 2018 :  10:55:33 PM



That would be a trip box

Originally posted by yardmaster54 - July 04 2018 :  09:36:07 AM


try this with a crossing signal
maybe thats what its for?
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Trip Track - is when you trip over a box of track that you left in the middle of the floor for just a minute!

Originally posted by microbusss - July 02 2018 :  10:55:33 PM



That would be a trip box

Originally posted by yardmaster54 - July 04 2018 :  09:36:07 AM


try this with a crossing signal
maybe thats what its for?
That's what I was thinking. I think I have a couple of signals, just have to find them

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Sounds like it is probably a 'push to make' type switch, like a doorbell switch on a house. Weight activated by trains as has been suggested by others.

I suggest that to test it just wire up a bulb with that in the circuit on one side of the supply and then try running various locos and stock over it to see how the bulb reacts to lighter and heavier items.

Loads of makes in 00/HO had this sort of thing in the 60s, but dare I suggest that none work as well or as positively as a reed mounted in the track being activated by a magnet under the loco, or the leading item of stock.

I have used the latter widely on many makes since the 1980s and I would not want to go back....

James
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Sounds like it is probably a 'push to make' type switch, like a doorbell switch on a house. Weight activated by trains as has been suggested by others.

I suggest that to test it just wire up a bulb with that in the circuit on one side of the supply and then try running various locos and stock over it to see how the bulb reacts to lighter and heavier items.

Loads of makes in 00/HO had this sort of thing in the 60s, but dare I suggest that none work as well or as positively as a reed mounted in the track being activated by a magnet under the loco, or the leading item of stock.

I have used the latter widely on many makes since the 1980s and I would not want to go back....

James

Originally posted by Highwayman97 - July 04 2018 :  11:16:01 AM




I will give it a try.
Thanks,
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This accessory is essentially the same thing as Walthers "TRIGOR" track which
I experimented with here...

http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12795

basically it is a normally off SPST button that is triggered by the weight
of rolling stock moving over it.
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