A hole in the wall X4 - a liftout bridge (page 12)

[TrainNut]

Well, today I finally came to grips with the fact that I had not designed a place for my controllers anywhere on my layout and keeping them on my stool seat was not really a good long term idea.



So I ran down to my local Lowes and got some thinwall aluminum angle to build this nifty little tray.



I then butchered an opening into the fascia, notched one of the wooden members underneath and slid the tray in. You see, as the front edge of the tray drops down, the rear edge fits up inside the notch keeping the whole thing from sliding out and falling on the floor.



Finally, I dropped the two controllers into place.



Now all I've got to do is pull the tray back out to paint it to match whatever color I eventually pick for the fascia and put some trim around the edges of the hole to clean it up. Now I can move on to running bus wires and hooking up the track leads.