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Curved turnouts aren't really any more difficult to build than standard straight ones. What works for me is to pin down one end of a piece of flextrack so as to match one leg of the proposed curved turnout; place a sheet of kraft paper over it and rub with a pencil to make the rail marks. Next shift the flextrak to the other turnout leg, replace the paper and make those rail markings. You now have a template. Make the point rails just a bit short, and put a sharp but very shallow bend in the stock rail of the diverging route right where the point contacts it. Using this method and the NMRA gauge a turnout can be made for almost any circumstance of reasonable geometry.
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