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Help a newbie understand switches, crossings and grades
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<p>[quote user="two tone"]if I was starting out I would use LGB track and turnouts( all my track is this) it comes in diffewrant lenths turn outs can be manual or electric( mine are all electric savs running around the garden to change them.[/quote]</p><p>From what I can tell, the Aristo-craft track comes in just as many lengths and they also have an electric switching option. I chose Aristo-Craft because I'd read in various places that they had screw-in rail joiners (which I like) and built-in posts for jumpers on each track piece. Plus, from what I can see Aristo offers a greater variety of pre-formed curves; they have 12 different preformed curve radius tracks, and I've only ever seen 3 or 4 from LGB. On the other hand, LGB does seem to have a better variety of switches, so if you can answer my questions above using LGB R5 switches instead of Aristo R4s, as I was planning originally, then I can redesign to take that into account.</p>
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