Good morning:
Santa and Doug Peck brought me a SHS right turnout (switch) for Christmas
for my workbench layout. I already have an SHS left providing a siding or the
left yard track. Due to space limitations this left turnout plugs into a right
curve forming a nasty S curve.
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I want to expand to a three track yard with my new turnout. This will give me
one nasty S curve and one gentle S curve.
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Last night I tried to build the above layout. The right turnout's ground throw
interferes with the other track coming shows with the big X. The ground throw
portion is part of the turnouts base casting. It can not be unscrewed and
swapped to the other side.
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This could work but now I have TWO nasty S curves. The whole objective was to
eliminate a nasty S Curve.
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This does not work unless I have a half-straight between the turnouts, again
because of the ground throws. Plus I do not have two left turnouts.
I am back to spacing AF issues and have to have a half-straight between
switches.
I am very sad as I thought the SHS turnouts avoided the problems found with the
AF switches with their huge their direction control lever box.
Any suggestions?
Thorin
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