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Okay, I need to clarify. It's CROSSINGS I'm interested in, not turnouts. The Atlas N-Scale code 55 turnouts are pretty nice, and have all-metal frogs. The crossings, however, have a lot of plastic in the frogs. As for my idea... I ended up using a small jeweler's file to just file off all the bolt-head details on the inside of the rails. Believe it or not, this WORKS. They come off very easily, and the rails are apparently NOT held in place by them (I thought the rails might slip right out, but they don't). Standard MIcrotrains flanges slip right through, as do Concor/Rivarossi and older Atlas N steam flanges. Arnold N-Scale, which have always had flangeous giganticus, still will not fit, but I only have 2 or so of those, and frankly, the flanges are so grossly oversized, that I'd be willing to carefully file those puppies down. You also have to file the bottoms out of the flangeways in the frogs as well, as they are a mite too shallow for standard flanges. But again, this wasn't too hard --- a lot less agony than I thought it would be. I wouldn't recommend this for a whole layout's worth of flextrack, but in my case, just doing it to a few crossings is fine. If only Microengineering made crossings to match their track. :-(
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