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Jim, <br /> <br />Don't scrap em'. The Shinohara are power routing turnouts. These are famous for losing contact when the points don't make clean contact against the stock rails. There are a variety of fixes. One of the most reliable is to electrically insulate the points from each other, then hard wire each point rail to its respective stock rail. Then you need to gap both sides of the frog. You can leave the frog un powered or power it with a switch mounted to the switch machine. Search the forums for more complete threads on this topic. MR has done numerous articles on this topic as well. While this fix can take a while for each turnout they do work very well after the modification is done. I'm sure some of the other guys have some ideas... <br /> <br />Guy
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