Custom made switches for AF GarGraves track.

[Hudson322]

Does anyone have a listing for someone to custom make Wide Radius Switches for AF or GarGraves track?  I was told I could  modify American S-Gauge switches to work with AF/GarGaves track.  But I want to keep the switch to match the AF/GarGraves track.  Can anyone help me?

[Timboy]

Hudson322:  One way to have any config you want is to make them yourself out of whatever rail stock and whatever ties you want - to match whatever else you are doing.  That's what I do.  Here's a link to one I built to match vintage flyer track:

http://timmysamericanflyertrains.blogspot.com/2010/09/handmade-turnout.html

Here's another link for hand-made turnouts very similar to what I make for myself - with more of an emphasis to scale:

http://www.bristol-s-gauge.com/Projects/cfrogsw/cfroginfo.html

To answer your question a little more fully, there is Tom's Turnouts:

http://tomsturnouts.com/

There is the Fastrax system:

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/

But neither of the above two use the kind of rail stock you mentioned.  There are wider-radius Gargraves switches on eBay from time to time.  They need some method of moving the frog.  I would also use a DPDT switch to dynamically energize the frog with the correct polarity.

Regards,

Timboy