I thought I had seen something mentioned a while back, but can't find it now or even remember if I actually ever did see a solution, but since the general consensus has always been that the facing-point side (and typically the straight-lined trailing side) be perfectly in line and straightened, is there a method to get switches on curves to look nice and not screw with the track alignments? The only option I seem to have found is to use extra spline points closely spaced to the turnout spline point and straighten those short sections, but when running a train over it, even in very short instances, the "straight" seems exaggerated (or even jarring, if the alignment is not absolutely perfect).
This is for a proto route, so the other answer of "just don't put your switches on curves, case closed" isn't really an option, and I know I've seen curved switches in real life.
Also please keep in mind this is not simply a case of the "main route being curved" with the siding as a tangent - both lines are curved before and after the turnout in this case.
This is for a proto route, so the other answer of "just don't put your switches on curves, case closed" isn't really an option, and I know I've seen curved switches in real life.
Also please keep in mind this is not simply a case of the "main route being curved" with the siding as a tangent - both lines are curved before and after the turnout in this case.