--- In [email protected], "Pieter" <pieter_r...@...> wrote:
>
> The explanation I have been given is that on the prototype the whole device
> is a "turnout", but the parts that route the train are the "switch". A
> switchman can align or "throw" the switch, only the track gang would align a
> turnout
I used to hang out at the railyard in the summer when I was a kid and
ocasionally rode out to jobs with the section gang to watch them repair the
track and never heard them use the term turnout, they just called the whole
thing a switch. Same with the train crews, I often heard them say something
about the switch but I never heard the term turnout till I read it in a
modelrailroader magazine and it made me laugh thinking back to my childhood SP
friends and imagining them saying something like "pull up short of the turnout
old chap " ....dave
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