--- In [email protected], Paul Vaughn <pv_sn3@...> wrote:
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> I wonder why the stand that moves the points of a switch is called a "Switch
> Stand". It is not call a turnout stand, so why call a switch a turnout. Pet
> pieve of mine.
Paul, This stems from prototype practice of calling turnouts "switches".
Track designers, gander dancers, etc. might call them turnouts, but operating
personnel refer to them as switches, hence switchstand. BTW, the industrial
switching RR I once worked for used #7 switches for most of their switches.
They came prefab.
Bud Rindfleisch
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