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I have been operating my Elias Valley Railroad, and a few other railroads before that since 1976. I have found that I really like Peco track. I have never used a crossing (diamond) before.
I am now beginning to design a new, large model railroad. I may finally be able to devote an entire bedroom to a railroad. I will not begin building it for about a year or more, but I want to start thinking of design ideas.
I would like to have a crossing on my mainline, mainly because it sounds nice when a train goes over it. I am also extremely concerned with derailments. I almost never have a derailment on my EV railroad, and I intend to have very few on my new railroad.
My real question is: Do derailments occur often at crossings? If they do, then I will not use one.
Thank you Dean
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I assume you are not hand-laying your track! If you get a diamond crossing from a reliable manufacturer, you should have no problem. In the last 40 years, I have found that most of the problems come from rolling stock - wheels out of guage, or not tracking straight behind one another. To test out a crossing, why not make a small test layout in a figure 8 and try different combinations of rolling stock and locomotives? Good luck & Keep on railroading. Tom
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