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Thanks John and Junior
On the lead into my yard track I have two turnouts back to back that go into a service area I wanted reserved for my steam locomotives. The locomotive enters the turnouts then goes to a short track. I switch the turnouts to straight and back the locomotive onto the service track. Lo and behold the track was 2 inches too short. The tender wheels were sitting on the turnout swing legs. Fortunately I have 3 inch straights on both ends of the turnouts so I simply moved the turnouts 3 inches which gave me the room I needed.