Description
The Micro Engineering 14-710 is an HO Code 83 #5a Standard Yard Ladder left-hand turnout — ME's specific geometry designed for yard ladders, where you need to fit multiple turnouts in tight succession to feed a row of parallel tracks.
About #5a: The "5a" designation indicates Micro Engineering's optimized geometry — tighter than a standard #5, with overall length and frog position tuned specifically for yard-ladder applications where space matters more than diverging-route smoothness.
Turnout features: Micro Engineering turnouts are DCC-friendly — the points are insulated to prevent shorts under DCC control. The frog is an insulated cast-metal piece (provides clean electrical pickup but isolated from the rest of the turnout circuit). Metal guard rails, scale tie plates and spikes, and brown ties. Ready to drop into a Code 83 / Code 70 layout.
About Micro Engineering Flex-Trak: Micro Engineering is the gold standard for prototypical fine-scale track among serious modellers. Distinguishing features — scale-size moulded ties, tie plates, and spike heads (real spike geometry, visible at viewing distance) and irregular tie spacing that matches real-railroad practice (uniform-spaced model track instantly reads as "model"; ME's variation reads as "real"). Natural brown tie colour, nickel-silver rail.
- Scale: HO Standard Gauge
- Rail: Code 83 (0.083") nickel-silver
- Hand: Left-hand
- Frog: #5a (ME Standard Yard Ladder)
- Use: Yard ladders, tight switching scenes
- RH companion: #14-711 (Standard Yard Ladder RH)
- Distributor SKU: 255-14710