can you cut turnouts so you will have more room for more track on the yard?? if so were do you cut it. i am working with atlas turnouts.
can you cut turnouts or switchs
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How would cutting them give you any more room? As long as you don't mess with the area between the points and the frog I see no way to cause harm, but I'm not following how you would get more room by doing it? Fred
Some turnouts have a longer "lead" (portion before the points) which can be shortened albiet at the expense of creating crowding and fouling situations which usually negate the advange of the shortening.
I moved to florida from allentown's neighboring town Nazareth "WZZO ROCKS I miss you bearman and keith!!"13Mtrainer said:
As long as you don't cut anything between the points (the moving parts of the turnout) and the frog, you can shorten turnouts by cutting them. Just be sure if you are shortening the cuved leg that if you attach another turnout to it, that you aren't creating a bad S-curve. Otherwise should be fine, I use Walthers turnouts and have shortenend several of them with no problem.
