• Mark Mogil of the BSSS (Black Sheep S-Scalers, Gibbstown New Jersey Area) emailed me some photos of a closed-frog switch made from S-Helper S-Trax. He made it by combining a piece of curved S-Trax with a piece of straight S-Trax, and then fabricating a closed-frog. Mark made this switch (actually 3 of them), working with supervision from "the wizard" Chick Viggianno of Chick's Hobby Center in Gibbstown New Jersey.
  
  

You can see these photos at <http://www.trainweb.org/sss/extras/switches/index.switches.html>

• Mark reports that they successfully ran an engine with scale wheels pulling cars with high-rail wheels through the switches.
  
  
• This is the switch that some of us S-Trax fans wish that S-Helper would have built, so that we who want to do public displays, instead of fighting over whether the switches are going to be scale or hi-rail, can use one closed-frog switch and run anything.
  
  
• Please note that Mark and Chick are NOT selling these switches; rather they are making just a few for their own use. But I wanted to show you these photos, and I hope you will find them of interest.
  
  
• FYI: The website for Chick's Hobby Center is at http://users.jnlk.com/~chicks/

- Jim Ingram