Turnout question poll

[ezdays]

Thanks for the insight. Since my layout is on a 36" door, I can easily reach everything, therefore I'm going with all manual. I still have some new electric ones that I may have future use for, depends on how I can expand later on. Let's face it, my passion is in building things anyway, and for me, running trains is secondary. That could change though....

And yes, I agree, they are called switches in the real world, but in my world of electronics, switches are used in electrical circuits so it's a lot less confusing to call them turnouts and that may be the reason they're called that in the modeling world. Maybe using, "rail switch" or "electric switch", might have been better, but it's way too late to change that connotation now.