I am very new to model railroading world. I run z-scale Marklin locomotives and rolling stock on Rokuhan track. I recently finished building an "AA" layout that has six turnouts. The layout is DC controlled. I have discovered that the trains run in only one configuration of the turnouts. Can anyone explain why this is happening?
Tom H.
Tom H;
I'm an N-scaler and not familiar with Z-scale products. Still, a turnout is a turnout in any scale. One important thing to find out about your turnouts is whether they are "power routing " or not. A power routing turnout (if fed electricity from the "points" end) will only pass on that electricity (track power) to the route that the turnout's points are set to. The other route trough the turnout will be "dead" without power, until the turnout is set for that route. I suspect this "power routing" feature may be included in your "Rokuhan" turnouts. You can confirm this with a simple test. connect some track to each of the three track connecting places on your turnout. Connect your power pack to the narrow end of the turnout, the one with only one track connecting place. Now put a locomotive on the track and run it through the turnout and onto whichever track the turnout is set for. Back the locomotive up a bit to make sure it will work in both forward and reverse on that selected track. Now witch the turnout to the other route. Apply power to the track and see if the locomotive moves. If it does not, then switch the turnout back to the route the locomotive is sitting on. Now does the locomotive move? If it does, your turnout is power routing. If you don't want to use the power routing feature, add some extra power feed wires to the two tracks coming out of the wide end of the turnout.
The attached file has a lot more information on turnouts.
Good Luck Have Fun;
Traction Fan
I'm an N-scaler and not familiar with Z-scale products. Still, a turnout is a turnout in any scale. One important thing to find out about your turnouts is whether they are "power routing " or not. A power routing turnout (if fed electricity from the "points" end) will only pass on that electricity (track power) to the route that the turnout's points are set to. The other route trough the turnout will be "dead" without power, until the turnout is set for that route. I suspect this "power routing" feature may be included in your "Rokuhan" turnouts. You can confirm this with a simple test. connect some track to each of the three track connecting places on your turnout. Connect your power pack to the narrow end of the turnout, the one with only one track connecting place. Now put a locomotive on the track and run it through the turnout and onto whichever track the turnout is set for. Back the locomotive up a bit to make sure it will work in both forward and reverse on that selected track. Now witch the turnout to the other route. Apply power to the track and see if the locomotive moves. If it does not, then switch the turnout back to the route the locomotive is sitting on. Now does the locomotive move? If it does, your turnout is power routing. If you don't want to use the power routing feature, add some extra power feed wires to the two tracks coming out of the wide end of the turnout.
The attached file has a lot more information on turnouts.
Good Luck Have Fun;
Traction Fan
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