No Benny, you did get that part right!
I have built an assembly jig for attempting to make my own turnouts, but still have some fixtures to make that are needed to machine and solder some of the sub-assemblies, like tapering the points and getting the frog angles set correctly. The rest of the trackage will be done with commercial Microengineering and Sunset Valley flex track.
But still, I haven't lost my mind so far as to need to assemble some half a million bents to trestle in umpteen miles of elevated railway as some have done. Heck, if I figured to get my trains to travel that far through the air .... I'd put wings on 'em and call them aeroplanes!?!? ;c)