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Handlaid Turnout talk.
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I'll ditto cjcrescent's response. <br /> <br />If I handlay/scratchbuild my switches I can get what I want and my switchwork doesn't look like those "pretty boxes on the hillside pretty boxes made of ticky-tacky". If I want a #9.5 switch I can get a #9.5 switch = I sure as the dickens can't buy one that size. I haven't tried a slip switch - yet - but I do know that they cost <i>beau-coup</i> bucks and what I spend on switchwork is not being spent on rolling stock. Had a guy in a club I belonged to many years ago who had a #3.5 to the left and a #5.5 to the right. It was in industrial trackage and it looked terrific. That's the way the pros (prototypes) build em.
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