Pickup shoe

The skid-shaped part under a three-rail locomotive that slides over the centre conductor to pick up current.

Dutch

sleepcontact

German

Schleifer

Articles using this term

• DC and AC: two-rail and three-rail explained
• Mixing Märklin and two-rail: why it does not work
• Train runs jerkily: dirty track or wheels
• Locomotive stalls on the frog
• Give your old box of track a second life
• The reversing loop: how it works and how to avoid a short circuit
• Märklin C track or Märklin K track: the differences side by side

See also

• Centre conductor
• Three-rail
• Switching track