Another thing I just noticed a 5" straight isn't a true 5 inches - it's 4-15/16"... I wondered why my layout wasn't working out and then something said measure a 5" pieces and sure enough, that's where the problem was.
The most frustrating part of all this is that I based my layout on using 30" straights with as few 5' & 10" sections as physically possible, every thing from stubs to sidings and distance between turnouts, curves, etc are all based on a 30" dimension.... if I was dealing to 10" sections I probably would have ended up with quite a different layout. And now to find their 5" track isn't 5" I'm starting to think I made a bad decision going with EZ-Track.
Don't get me wrong, I love the way EZ-Track goes together and I also like not having to deal with a separate roadbed and ballast, and ultimately I know some of this is my own fault, I did the track design before I had the track in hand, but I didn't know exactly what kind of layout I was going to do and wanted to purchase all the track and turnouts at one time.
Also, can someone explain why the straight section on a turnout isn't 10" long? It would make a lot more sense if it were, because then if you want to make a change and add a stub or siding in the future all you had to do was take out a 10" piece and add the turnout. Now, as it stands you need two (2) 1-7/8" long pieces from the 90-degree crossover set (because they don't sell 1-7/8" pieces separately) added to the turnout to make it 10" long.