I'm building a slightly complex set of turnouts and so I printed some templates and taped them down to poster board in attempt to plan the whole thing and have something to work against. I very carefully lined them up and taped them down, but then I did some check measurements and found out I was way, way off.
A generic answer would be great, but a specific one would also be fine. I am building N Scale FastTracks #12 turnouts, in a simple arrangement to connect two tracks, like so:
My question is, if the track centerlines are 1.5", how long should the crossing segment be, ideally via some easy to measure point on the turnout? Frog point to frog point would be great. End of quick sticks to end of quick sticks would work.
Basically after I hand laid that out the differences in my "looks perfectly straight to me" by eye layout were 0.75" across several of these! I can make them all the same, but if I am going to that trouble I should make them right so the segment between tracks is properly straight.