Big_Boy_4005 posted:It just requires that you pay attention. I have over 300 switches on my layout, and use a few different methods to throw them, and none are non derailing. Mainline turnouts are powered Tortoises. Yards and spurs, where I can reach use Cabooses. Where they are hard to reach, I use RC push rods, akin to a choke cable but cheaper. Then I have a few, where I want the train to go the same way when facing the points all the time, which use a piece of music wire as a spring to hold the points one way. When traveling through in the trailing direction, it is non derailing.
Then there's this one, where I used a longer than normal piece of music wire, in combination with a Tortoise. That is really non derailing. It's a spring switch that you can throw. I think that's what you seek.
Thanks so much for all of the suggestions.
I like the push rod method for those that I can't reach, and I like the spring loaded option for a form of non-derailing.
