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I use peco turnouts in hidden staging. My suggestion would be to hardwire the point/closure rails to the stock rail and double gap the frog (leaving it dead). Peco turnouts have some gaps in the tie spacing underneath to slide and solder a jumper to connect the rails. I have done this modification on six or seven turn outs while they were mounted (not ballasted) in place. Some don't like leaving the frog dead, but if you gap pretty close to it , you shouldn't have problems with anything except older brass and very small wheel base locos. I ran everything I own through the dead frog at a crawl and had no stalls. I run recent plastic steam. Good luck.
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