[PRCo] Re: Good Old Days

[Bill Robb]

> .
> Bill & Walt's Hobby Shop on Smithfield near Blvd.
> .
> Recommended practice for placing overhead frog for models is directly
> above track frog - early to mid-1950s.   In those days we made our own
> frogs and mine were quite crude as very young teen.  Trolley would
> Always Follow the wrong wire because the pole would scrape against the
> large crude flanges I made to guide the shoe.     I finally went out and
> measured By Footsie the frogs at the Dormont wye, at Clearview Loop and
> walked to Castle Shannon to measure frogs there and found that
> """The__General__Rule"""  is that the overhead frog is located about
> 1/3rd the distance from the point to the frog and slightly offset toward
> the curve.    A span Should Be Placed At The Point to hold the wire at
> that location directly centered over the track  --  this allows the
> slight offset toward the curve of the frog to be of practical benefit.
> .
> Told my experience to proprietors of Bill & Walt and they Soundly
> Laughed Me Out Of The Store!~!~!
> .
> Within a year or two, Suydam came out with his classic HO Catalog with a
> section on overhead at the very back which vindicated my observations as
> he stated exactly what I state above!~!~!
> .
Isn't that how motormen located the switches in fresh snow cover?








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