We have a couple of sprung turnouts on the secondary main of the club layout. Because Ross turnouts are so smooth, it doesn't take much force to push the points, so we tweaked ball-point pen springs to push the points so that trains would automatically enter the staging yard from the proper direction when running in loop-to-loop mode on upper branch. The upper reverse loop above the staging yard (also functions as a holding area) uses a sprung turnout as well. Saves a lot of running around to throw turnouts. You can see a train taking the sprung crossover at about 7:45 in the video.
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