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[quote user="Midnight Railroader"][quote user="santafe347"][quote user="tomikawaTT"] <p>A single slip switch, by definition, is a crossing with two pairs of points and a single curved stock rail - what you might think of as 'half a double slip switch.'</p><p>It sounds as if you are looking for lapped turnouts - a double slip without one straight route. While I would not hesitate for a heartbeat to build one from raw rail (I will be building several in my passenger staging yard) I don't believe that I have ever seen them offered commercially. You might be able to achieve the same result by doing some creative surgery on two commercial #6 switches. IMHO, it would be easier to hand-lay them.</p><p>Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - on hand-laid specialwork)</p><p>[/quote] </p><p> Do you have a picture of what you mean, so I can see if it is what I need? If you took a Left Hand #6 switch, and laid it with the diverging route toward you, then laid a right hand #6 switch on top of it with the route toward you, that's what I need.</p><p>[/quote]Wouldn't that be a three-way turnout?</p><p>[img]http://www.hobbylinc.com/gr/pco/pco1055.jpg[/img]</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>No, what I need is what Chuck said. It is a double slip with one straight side (thanks Chuck)</p>
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