Handlaying Turnouts in "Gangs"

[hminky]

I have a "what I did" about handlaying turnouts in "gangs" at the bench at:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/gangs/

Thank you if you visit
Harold

[mearrin69]

Nice tutorial - thanks for posting it. I'd love to try this out someday but, for now, it's fun to read how folks do this sort of thing. It's still magic to me. :)
M

[trainnut1250]

Harold,

Interesting idea on the turnouts. Very nice tutorial on how you did the work. In general, the tutorials at your site are well done and they give me lots of ideas and inspiration.

I too am modeling CA and I am just at the stage where I am considering grass options. I like the look of the grass on your layout and the tutorial that goes along with it.

Nice to see stuff posted showing "how to" rather than "what if?"

The rest of you guys, if you haven't been to this site and looked at the tutorials, take a moment to do so. They are well done and I think that you might be inspired......

Thanks Harold for taking the time to put this stuff together,


Guy

[cordon]

I am really impressed.  I imagine that trains run a lot more smoothly without all the joints.

Thank you.

 

 

[IRONROOSTER]

Nice article.  Have you given up Sn3.5 and returned to On30?

Enjoy

Paul 

[wedudler]

This is the way I go, too.

 Wolfgang

[BigRusty]

I am glad to see that this is proven to be practical.

I need to create the East and West approach throats to the New Haven Union Station from a 4 track mainline entering from the West and 5 tracks exiting to the East.

This involves curved switches branching to 12 station platform tracks, the electric motor storage area and the passenger coach yard, including two single slip switches. Very complex, to say the least.

Many of the switches are very close together, having the points almost at the frog of the preceding one. To minimize the number of joints, I have been considering constructing the entire East and West throats on the work bench. This method will not only eliminate a lot of unecessary joints, but building it on the layout is totally impractical.

I have purchased the FastTracks No. 8 fixture and point grinding fixture which I can use to shape the points, frog points and guardrails, then mark the areas of the outer rails where the points rest, grind them back,  and solder them in place on the copper ties.

Thank you guys for the encouragement.