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From Z scale on up, built by modelers like you

Z scale #6 Code 55 turnout with a truck on the points — Z scale #6, Code 55

N scale curved #6 Code 55 turnout — N scale curved #6, Code 55

HO #6 three-way turnout and slip switch — HO #6 three-way and slip switch

Sn2 #6 turnout with a two-foot gauge truck — Sn2 #6

Built to stay put

Our fixtures are machined from aluminum to NMRA specifications, so the accuracy of the fixture becomes the accuracy of your turnout. Everything is held in place while you solder, and stays there for the life of the turnout.

The fixture does the hard part. You cut, file and solder.

Soldered solid. Nothing glued, no plastic. Glue is not a mechanical bond, and plastic parts wear and work loose. Both fail over time. Every critical joint in a Fast Tracks turnout is soldered metal, so nothing comes apart.

The same turnout every time. Our turnout fixtures build left and right hand, as many as your layout needs.

Close-up of a hand-built frog, rail soldered to gapped PC board ties

How the tools work

Each tool does one job and takes out the guesswork. Here's an HO #6 turnout going from loose rail to finished track. The whole build takes about an hour.

Filing a switch point with the rail clamped in a PointForm filing jig — **1. File the points**The PointForm jig holds the rail at the right angle while you file switch points and frog points.

CopperHead PC board ties set into their pockets in the HO #6 Code 83 turnout fixture — **2. Prep and insert the PC board ties**Cut the PC board ties to length using the printed template, then drop the ties into the pockets in the fixture.

Holding rails down onto the PC board ties in the turnout fixture — **3. Set the rail in the fixture**Lay the rail over the ties in the machined slots. Everything lines up exactly.

Soldering a rail to a copper PC board tie in the fixture — **4. Solder**Solder each rail to the copper ties. The fixture holds gauge while the joints set.

Lifting the finished turnout skeleton out of the fixture — **5. Lift out the skeleton**Rail soldered solid to PC board ties. That's already a working turnout.

Pressing the soldered turnout skeleton into a sheet of HO #6 QuickSticks laser-cut wood ties — **6. Add the wood ties**Press the skeleton into a sheet of QuickSticks laser-cut ties. Every wood tie is filled in at once.

The finished HO #6 turnout lifted free of the QuickSticks sheet — **Done.** A finished HO #6 turnout, ready for the layout.

Building a curved turnout with Fast Tracks Tools Play video

Watch one get built

This is the On30 #6 curved turnout at the top of this page, built start to finish.

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