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The first layouts I saw as a kid were all hand-laid. I've just handlaid a couple stretches of track and one turnout. The equipment goes through the turnout very smoothly - it's very pleasing to see. In this day of RTR, I think it's very cool to do some things the old fashioned way. Something that commercial turnouts/track will never have are: 1) Very smooth-flowing curved turnouts of any size 2) Real wood ties. There's something about real stained wood ties that looks very pleasing to me. As someone said above, check out www.handlaidtrack.com. There are some pics of turnouts on that site that are simply frighteningly awesome.
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