Tom - I admire your industriousness. One can, apparently. buy switches or turnouts in O Scale. Even I, with no interest in switching things at all, have a curved turnout, a 3-way turnout, and a lust for a crossover - just to hear the clickety clack.
If one wants high end switches, Lou Cross has all the castings - and sells rail to match. I think you have to be really in to track as a model to go that far, but I have his castings in place on my test loop, and they are not difficult to use.
I suspect that if your goal is to make money, the place to aim is to pick up where MTH is leaving off - a good grade of 2-rail track and switches that lays as easily as their 3-rail track. The market there is, in my opinion, as good as the 3-rail scale market. They are all dying for the realism of 2-rail without the hassles - and hassles are what you get when you strive for absolute scale in O Scale trackwork.
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