Just for trudging through my below novel about my RDC, soon to be on the best seller's list (more like cellar's list) I want to give you a simple thing to enhance your Atlas switches in their appearence.. First bright-boy off the black paint (God only knows why it's there) on the frog. Now with a tiny bottle of Chrome ,not silver, chrome enamel paint, paint the brown plastic insulators which surround the frog where closure-rails (that's right huh?) abutt them from other side,giving the look of continuous rail to/from frog. After you do this most simplest of 'scenery' jobs stand back and check out how more realistic the switches look ( Sorry, I'm tired of the term 'turnout' replacing what the 'realroaders' call 'switches'. Since we're moving away from toggle-switched track blocking and into digital control , the word 'turnout' to differentiate it from toggle 'switches' has and does annoy me. I /we grew up loving SWITCHES. So, this is what I shall call them. Besides, couldn't one call them 'turn-ins' , too ? ). Paint seems to remain perminant and does not affect pick-up. If it does disappear...one guess ......
