@AmFlyer posted:All of my Gilbert engines run through my turnouts with no issue. No reason a FV turnout cannot do the same if a high rail version is used and then shimmed slightly for scale wheels.
The secret to making this work is to shim the guard rail enough to pull the scale wheel away from the frog point. That’s easy enough. The hard part is having enough space between the guard rail and stock rail to allow a Flyer wheel to pass through and still pull the scale wheel away from the point.
It’s that simple. It has been done. Adding shims to keep the scale wheel from dropping too much into the frog hole is icing on the cake, but actually not necessary.
Tom Stoltz
