Just to add confusion, the British, and some colonial outposts, call them points!
--- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <c...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Pieter" <pieter_roos@> 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 > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
