This year I've been making some very tight turning track, with the odd video showing my building process. This was all experimenting to see how compact '00' turns can be made that work. The reason being I have a Rapido Ivor on order and fancy making a small layout to take out on the exhibition trail.
Anyone who has watched Ivor videos will know that the engine shed has a very small triangle of track at the front to allow Ivor to reverse his orientation.
To make this small enough to easily fit on 24" (610 mm) wide board the turns need to be very tight. I have loads of code 75 bullhead track wires so the plan was to produce a one piece formation.
It became impossible for me to make a fully working 'Y' point as with such tight turns the switch blades are only 45 mm long !! Certainly there was no way I could articulate for changing and also include an isolating cut on each.
As a result the 'Y' is working in one fixed direction only, while both the standard points are fully working.
A complication I was aware of was the reverse loop effect and this was going to be done through the 3 frog juicers of the original plan. It will now only have 2 frog juicers and no fancy wiring required, just the standard switching on the two straight points.
Here is a running test on the shed access route, no fixed wiring yet and the test had to be done with a couple of isolating slots shorted together with a short length of solder wedged in !!