Tom's Turnouts & Trackwork

Tom's Turnouts & Trackwork is a manufacturer of model railroad turnouts in S scale, located in Maine. When I started designing my Hi-rail S guage layout, I found there were plenty of commercial turnouts for tinplate and scale layouts, but nothing for Hi-rail. I didn't want the toy train look of the closing frog turnouts, and the plastic frogs of commercial available turnouts had stalling problems at slower speeds. So I built my own. After finding success with my design, I took them to a Maine S Gauger meeting where the members encouraged me to sell them to other S gaugers. As a result, Tom's Turnouts &Trackwork was started. It wasn't my intention to design a Hi-rail turnout that would also allow scale to operate, but one day a new idea for the design came to me. With a little tweaking here and there, I found that not only would Flyer and Hi-rail operate through the turnouts, scale would reliably run through them as well. We make turnouts in several configurations, using either S Helper Service 155# nickel silver rail, or code 148 brass or nickel silver, to match American Models track.