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As promised, here are photos of a sprung turnout on the club layout. It's part of a crossover that allows loop-to-loop running from the upper branch to the secondary main. There's also a spring on the switch to the upper reversing loop, but I wasn't up to getting and climbing on a ladder to photograph it.

On this one, the spring finally wore out and we decided to go with a slightly easier mount by stretching the spring and mounting it between the throw ties. Notice that we have a couple of spare springs nearby so we don't have to hunt for them. This is the entrance to the staging yard and isn't in public view. It initially surprises guests when the train changes direction on the secondary main since the reversing takes place in the staging room.

2019-10-19 13.05.20

This one has the original mounting (barely visible). We're going to change out the spring to match the other turnout when this spring goes.

2019-10-19 13.05.13

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