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What are their exact lengths? Meters ok, degrees better.TIA.Dave NelsonWP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 100% complete;
SP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 20% complete;
Aug 1950 
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3d endpnt: 271.64074 meters radius
3.16 degrees
14.98163993 meters length6d endpnt:101.2882 meters radius
5.6384 degrees
9.96763447 meters lengthThese correspond almost exactly to #9 and #5 turnouts respectively, because you need two of these end pieces so the frog angle is twice the above figures.All of this can be gleaned from the tsection.dat file (in the GLOBAL folder, not in your route's folder), and it is not that hard to learn how to read this file, as there are instructions at the beginning. But I am more than happy to help!Mark
Moffat Road Tabernash to Phippsburg
All track complete
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