Welcome to my site. I had to quickly move out of a home recently, having to just tear my railroad of 10 years to shreds. I currently live in a rental home that we will not be staying in so I have had a lot of free time and have made a supply of HO scale handmade #8, #6, and #4.5 turnouts (switches) in several rail gauges, code 83, code 70, and code 55. Sorry, no code 100 at all. Contact me if you have some custom items you would like built.
These turnouts are all made with the “Fast Tracks“ jig assembly method. There is simply no better operating turnout out there. I had 14 of these turnouts operating in an area that was extremely difficult to access. The only derailment I ever had was when I forgot to throw the switch.
You can certainly go to “Fast Tracks” site and buy everything you need to make your own turnouts, but you will have the initial expense of all the tools and jigs you would need to purchase to do the job, and, you would need the time to build the assemblies, which, honestly, takes about 2 to 2 1/2 hours each. I have now built over 100 of these turnouts and have gained experience that creates much better switches than when I began using this system.
These turnouts are already electrically “gapped” for easy power connection in either DC or DCC. I have completed these turnouts using “Fast Tracks“ Quick Sticks crosstie assemblies that I have pre-painted to look like railroad tie brown wooden ties. There is a hole pre-drilled into the throwbar of each turnout. The only thing you would need are either hand throw mechanisms, or electrical switch motors, of which I prefere “Cobalt” switch motors by DCC Concepts, or “Tortoise” switch machines.
Contact me and I will try to help you with any challenges or problems. I will try to fix any problem that has not been caused by abuse or mis-use.