I just purchased two new Bachmann manual switches #'s 94351 & 94352. When I installed them with new Bachmann track, they seem to be a bit different. The shape of the rail on the switches seems to be a bit different than the track that is connecting to them. When the engine and cars pass over them there is a BUMP at the connection and the train is kind of rocky as it passes over. The switches work ok but I would expect a better connection for the price. Think they are defective as in made wrong?
I've got the left hand one and yep, is bumpy. Real ones are bumpy too and real cars rock going over them but not so much as the model.
Am wondering about filing flangeways in the frog a bit deeper but am not yet ready to try that on a $50 turnout. Got no problem doing that on an $18 HO gauge turnout but a $50 turnout is a different thing to the mind.
And remember, these particular turnouts are not built to precision German engineering standards.