I would like to purchase several turnout switches that come with the #5 and #6 tracks instead of the push and click switches.(Sorry about the terminology) Is this possible. thanks
Are you saying that you want manual #5 and #6 turnouts? If that is the case you can buy the DCC turnouts which also can be used as manual turnouts provided you have a DCC layout. No #5 and #6 turnouts are just manual so you would be paying more for either the decoder equipped turnouts, as I don't believe the standard analog turnouts have a switch for manual use.
If you mean can you manually switch the turnouts the answer is yes.
Besides the electrical switch that comes with the turnout there is a slide switch mounted on the roadbed that also activates the switches.
If you wanted to use other switch machines I do not know if they would mate with the turnouts. But you have a choice of the remote or the manual operation.
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