Coxy's N Scale and Railroad Blog

A view along the secondary spur. You can also see the turnout ties on the main have been trimmed to length using an exacto knife.

Note the angle of the diverging route from the secondary doesn't line up well with the quickstick ties. I have since removed most of the turnout ties on the diverging route past the frog to allow the spur curve to begin sooner. It's still tightere than I prefer. So how did this happen? The answere is that the plan was drawn with 3rd Plan It using the NMRA switches. It tured out that even though Fastracks builds to NMRA standards, there is room for interpretation in the standard. Long story short, I have since created turnouts to use in 3rd Plan It that have the correct dimensions.