Train shed now in use!

[Westcott]

Last summer we had the builders in, making a garage extension at the side of the house.
It must be a garage 'cos it's got a garage door at the front!
However, most of it would be train shed, 4 tracks on a worktop, and shelves above for boxes.
The throat would be through a "train flap" (medium dog flap size), then down a long ramp to join the main circuit.

Well, 2 of the 4 roads are now tested and in use.
Here's the view looking out of the flap -

And here is the 'removable without too much effort' bridge from house to the top of the approach ramp -

 

[Steve]

Brilliantly engineered Sir

 

[KentKeith]

Inspirational.

Once my house extension gets built the OO/HO layout will move indoors and G-Scale will take over the space currently used by the OO/HO layout. Like the idea of the sector plate:thinking:

 

[Old Tom]

Ingenious! Love it

 

[Westcott]

Thanks all!

... Like the idea of the sector plate...

Keith, I sort of modelled it on the Train-Li 5-way-Y switch.
Never knew it was called a sector plate.
That's one of the 2 new things I learnt today.

Hamish

 

[minimans]

ingenious! I take it thats a piece of flex track that you just lift and reposition? what a great idea, it will be less likley to cause derailments than a switch of that complexity...........

 

[Richie]

Great work Hamish do like your bridge going into the garage is it built from plastic ?

 

[Bram]

What a cunning plan Hamish, well thought out

 

[Westcott]

Minimans, yes, spot on.

Richie, yes, yet another pvc cheapo girder bridge.
The top (and the approach ramp) is 2 pieces of square guttering down pipe.
The rest is a mixture of plasterers' beading and tile edging.