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If you have ever observed the prototype going through a crossover, it doesn't look right! At one point a car or loco is literally running sideways. I can see where as modelers we have problems after seeing the prototype in action. At the factory i worked at, we were out by the CSX mainline in Brownsville, Tn when a hotshot intermodal came by. The local was held up on our spur. When the hotshot crossed the turnout to our factory the cars swayed enough that it had the guys on the local worried. They call MOW who sent out an alignment machine that leveled the spur and retamped the ballast under the rails. The weight of cars being switched over the turnout to the spur track which was a lower elevation had twisted the turnout's diverging route.
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