Bill, the thread 3 below this one in the S Forum called Fox Valley Turnouts has a lot of information on how to make open frog turnouts work for scale and high rail. I also posted closeup pictures of my turnouts there. It requires getting the height of the frog insert correct and the spacing between the rails and wing rails correct. When this is done all highrail wheelsets must be perfectly in gauge to work w/o derailing. 100% of the Lionel Flyer rolling stock will have to be regauged, all are about 1/10" too narrow, the engines are correct. About 50% of my Gilbert cars needed regauged. All of the AM and SHS equipment worked as delivered.
Joe, there are many S scale buildings available, all are kits. My layout also uses some HO structures modified with a higher base and scale doors. As mentioned 1/48 scale buildings do not work for S in my opinion. For layouts with a more nostalgic look I use Snow Village from Department 56. Many of the buildings and some of the houses are 1/64 scale.
