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Originally Posted by Trev
....but I was gobsmacked when I saw the lower level storage sidings! How on earth did you manage to control it all? I was expecting to see half a dozen storage sidings, not an Alpine Toton Yard.  .......... |
Trev,
All the points were manually operated and I made sure that they were accessible through the gap at the front of the layout although some were "just around the corner" so you had to operate them by feel
. It worked quite well until there was a derailment which fortunately didn't happen too often. The worst possible scenario was occasionally caused by our old friend "the N-Gauge coupler"........If some of the stock became detached from a train climbing up to the upper level it would roll back down to the storage sidings at high speed resulting in total chaos
It would then be a case of removing all the stock and starting again.
My new layout has a similar system of storage sidings beneath the main layout but I now have a bit more space to play with so access is easier.
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