What did you do on your layout today? (N scale)

[brill27mcb]

I think most of the problems are in North America, where people are running NMRA-spec wheels (tread width, flange depth and shape, tread taper, flange fillet, etc.) on Japanese market turnouts. The rest of the world does not religiously follow NMRA specs, but many Americans wrongly assume that they do. Just visually compare the wider, deeper-flanged, no-fillet Japan-market wheelsets from Kato and Tomix to North American ones, and the differences are pretty clear. Not to say that a little tuning can't help things when needed.

 

Khaul, the original well-publicized #4 points "tuner" was John Sing. Mike Fifer simply parroted his work.

 

Rich K.