Sixman76

What is the travel length of throwbar on the Atlas 563/564 turnouts? I need to find ground throws that will work with these turnouts (even if out of scale).

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eastwind

How accurate were you looking to be?

This page: https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/atlas-ho-563-code-83-track-6-left-hand-custom-line-turnout/

has a very large picture of one of those turnouts. In my browser it kind of messed up and put other bits of the page on top of it. But I was able to right click on the image and 'view image in new tab'. That got me the just the picture of the turnout. 

Then I zoomed out until the track gauge was 2", and measured 5/16" for the throwbar travel (nearest sides of point and stock rail). So rescale that to HO. Very roughly, I get an eighth of an inch or so.

 

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