Comments on: Track Parts to Identify https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=track-parts-identify Model railroads and model trains Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: geoff https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27740 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:34:00 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27740 In reply to Pradyot Basu.

that seems to make sense. The locomotive straddles the insulating gap and makes the connection, completing the circuit, and thus activating whatever circuit you have the connector wired into. I suppose you could also use this to isolate a section of track.

]]> By: Pradyot Basu https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27703 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:05:38 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27703 Backside of trix4979. And closeup picture of the same. Hope my friends will be able to identify the part & uses of that.

]]> By: Geoff https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27693 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:03:43 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27693 According to google, it’s a minitrix, or trix, n gauge contact track switch, part # 4979. It looks to me that the more modern version is part # 14979. “For train-controlled activation of automatic functions. The switching process is activated only by a minimum of two metal wheels that are electrically linked together, not by individual wheels or plastic wheels.” So it’s of an age when DC was all there was. I think you would use it to activate a solenoid switch as the contact would be momentary. If you google “how to automatically work minitrix signals”, you should find a wiring diagram on a website confusingly called guidetozscale.com.

]]> By: Joe https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27689 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:16:31 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27689 HI
Is that a lite I see on it?
Any name on the back of track?
It does look like N scale to me.

]]> By: Pradyot Basu https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27681 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:31:47 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27681 A different view.

]]> By: Pradyot Basu https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27680 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:48:56 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27680 In reply to Marvin.

It is of n scale. About 1/2″ of track is insulated at square portion. Track power jumped from bottom end. I will try to get More section photos.

]]> By: Pradyot Basu https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27679 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:42:52 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27679 In reply to Robt..

No

]]> By: Marvin https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27667 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 05:07:11 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27667 It looks like a track weight switch.
It seems too big for n gauge
Maybe ho or possibly oo gauge
It might even be for a bigger gauge
The weight of the train presses on it and makes contact to close the switch
It will have no effect on the train power
Marvin

]]> By: Robt. https://blog.model-train-help.com/2019/02/track-parts-identify.html#comment-27653 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:09:26 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5114#comment-27653 Is the black piece of track rubber ?

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