I’d like to be able to configure sidings and parallel yard tracks much closer than Lionel AF FasTrack turnout geometry permits. One seemingly possible way to accomplish this objective would be to shorten the curved leg of an R27 turnout by about two or three inches [R20 turnouts have extremely short curved legs and thus are not amenable to such surgery]. Would doing so damage any of its essential mechanical and/or electrical components and thereby render the R27 inoperable- -i.e. useless? [Note: Because I neither own nor have access to this product, I am unable to simply examine the underside myself.]
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