Turnout Construction - Stage 6

Building a Turnout, Point or Switch

Cut chairs in half and glue in position indicated in green in the diagram below (these are indicated by the letter H and an arrow on the Track Template). Fix stretcher/tie bars of your choice. Your construction should now look like the diagram below. Three wiring leads can now be soldered to the wiring links, remove excess solder from links and transport to baseboard if necessary. An alternative and invisible method of wiring, instead of using wire links, is to use the C&L Lost Wax brass cast slide and running rail chairs. Using these allows you to connect a wire directly through the chair and through a hole drilled in the sleeper under the chair. These obviously are only required where an electrical connection is required.