I have had experience with Marcway turnouts. They were made available in various gauges - O,S,HO etc. and in various rail codes. I had a close friend (now deceased) several years ago who was an O scale modeler of English railways in the 1930's. He imported the Marcway turnouts for resale to other O scale modelers. The turnouts were built with the rail soldered to pc board ties. The point rails were continuous to the frog. I had to repair a couple of turnouts that were damaged in shipment. These were code 148 O scale three way turnouts. I remember that the point rails were very stiff. My friend told me that Marcway subcontracted the assembly work on the turnouts to retired people to supplement their income. I doubt that the tortoise type slow motion switch machines would throw the points on these turnouts.
Lynn Ray
