With the help of my buddy, Joe, I have been slowly upgrading my non-powered turnouts around the layout with the excellent and awesome Kasper MKVII, rev2 turnouts!

We've been working our way around, starting with Columbia, then Westinghouse, then St. Charles, and Rhineland. Last week, the west spur at Mokane received "the treatment" as we call it. The improvement to operation is dramatic.

The original turnouts were hand-thrown, but the new Kasper turnouts all get a tortoise and, of course, powered frogs.