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The kinds of turnouts that correspond to curve radii aren't prototypical and are usually associated with train sets and beginner layouts; the diverging leg of a turnout technically HAS no radius, because it is straight. The curved ones are intended as a drop-in for a train-set loop curve track section. <br /> <br />The big ones, like #6 and #8, as your post mentions, should be of the straight-leg variety, so that doesn't matter. You lay it, and then make a short transition easement into your curve. <br /> <br />I believe I have seen #8's in the hobby shop, but then, again, I'm handlaying and haven't paid a lot of attention. You get the ties, spikes, and rail at the hobby shop, too. (The good ones, not the we-carry-RC-cars-and-model-planes-too kind.)
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