Building a number of assorted turnouts (including several curved turnouts) I’ve developed some additional techniques which improve upon those listed on this site. I have added a page that includes these tips, and I will update it as I discover better ways of doing things.

I realized that although building each of the turnouts separately was advantageous to their construction, the slight inconsistencies in each turnout ‘ variations in angles, lengths etc. actually made it more difficult to assemble on the baseboard, so I opted to combine the switches together and build them as sub-assemblies. I combined the two turnouts that make up the crossover as one unit, as well as the two turnouts and the two 90 degree crossings where the mainline meets the branch unit. I am also building the curved turnout and siding on the branch line as a single assembly.