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<p>My layout has 125 tortoise powered DCC friendly modified Shinohara turnouts. At one time I had 22 Central Valley turnouts installed. My layout focuses on a big yard, the east end of which has it's ladder on an approxiametely 3 degree curve to the right and yard tracks (11) branching off the left. I was led to beleive that Central Valley (CV) components could accomodate this configuration. After repeatedly rebuilding them to the point that very little was left other than the tie strips and frogs I have given up, ripped them completely out and haidlaid the whole works following Tony Koester article in MR 84. I am hooked on handlaid track. The problem with CV turnouts is that the points are made of some kind of soft metal, the throwbar is a plastic peice that pops out sporadically and the frog cannot be built up again if you file to much away. I still have a few left and in straightforward applications they seem OK. I do not think there is any commercial turnout that you can pull out of the box and get top line performance from. For me top line is slow speed steam switching.</p><p>Jon Bratt </p>
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