I have a Rapido Angus Van and it's performance is hideous. It derailed going around a 22" radius curve. My research indicates that it is due to the inability for the truck to rotate. I have clipped off some detail but it is further hindered by the electrical pickup system. A fellow showed me how to mitigate this by making a modification but I'm still not happy so I removed all pickup and it works great. I'd like to try to get it to work with more flexible wire either 30 or 32 gauge.

I almost hijacked the peco insulfrog thread but at the last minute decided to start a separate one.

Thanks JoeF for providing some great reference info in the other thread on soldering feeder wires to peco turnouts. I'm basically asking the same question here but for people building fast tracks turnouts - how many feeders does everyone solder to the turnout?

I am thinking of adding background sound to a section of my layout. Has anyone used the Pricom Dreamplayer and what are your result and experience? I like the LTE version but am wondering if the trigger can be produced by Digitrax block detection. In other words the player would only start a track if the block becomes occupied?

Prof K I see that your listed in the credits on this product. Do you have input on it? 

I once read an article on increasing the throw wire diameter on a tortoise switch machine. The article stated by increasing the diameter that better results would be obtain during operation because the wire is more rigid. My problem is that I don’t recall where I read it. Any help in finding this article would be appreciated.