42” radius tubular 0 gauge switches

I have a large o gauge postwar layout with all postwar 0 gauge tubular track and 022 switches. I want to run a couple modern Lionel engines that require 42" radius minimum curves. Menards has the track but does anyone make 42" radius tubular motorized switches? Thanks in advance.

Lionel and K-Line made an O42 switch for O27 track, but I know they never did for tubular O track, just O72 and O31. On my layout there were a few places I needed my larger engines to travel and I just worked in O72 switches.

The closest you will get is the 35.88" radius Lionel, RossPlate, or SuperSnap(K-Line, RMT, or O-Line Reproductions) O-72 switches, or the #4 high speed switches from Ross in their RossPlate line found HERE.

Might help to clarify, do you really mean 42" radius (i.e., O-84) turnouts, or do you mean 42" diameter (O-42) turnouts?

Two-railers normally use radius to describe curves, three-railers use diameter.

Well, that’s going to make a difference!

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