My search didn't find anything on Atlas True Track Turnouts. I have no issues with the track, but the turnouts ride rough, sometime the locomotive stops on them and if the switch is the wrong way the locomotive will not go through. Anyone else have these issues?
I have a few of these. They are touchy. I had to take them apart and put some conductive grease on the contacts for the frog polarity to get them to work better. I also noticed that the torque on the screws of the metal plate on the bottom can bind it up if they are too tight.
Sure. Even real railroads have some of them. There's no smooth way to cross the necessary gap in the rail, for example. You don't want the locomotive to go through a trailing point switch that's set the wrong way, because the cars certainly won't without derailing. Lionel has made three rail switches which automatically align as the train approaches for eighty years. Of course, they're only available in O gauge, and cost ten times as much as other switches.
I'm coming from z scale using Märklin track. Those turnouts work well and always align no matter which way its set. Does Kato Unitrack have better turnouts?
