06-20-2010, 05:40 AM
Gary ...
With a yard at either end of your industrial district, I believe you've got the "Beyond the Basement" interchange covered! Let's not get caught up in the "hidden" v "out in the open" debate ... the main tenet is interchange, however you choose to accomplish it. Besides, doesn't the Galveston Branch join your industrial district at or near one of the yards?
Huh, huh? Of course ...! No need to try to cram track between the backdrop and the wall in "no access-land"! Keep on wiring ... you've got it all covered! 
And Jim ... Nice drawing! The lever, the eccentric link, the slides ... I like it! I may use that arrangement where I designed in a scenicked "roll-away" section that will take the place of a hinged drop-down or swinging "gate." I'll need to lock it at both ends, but I designed the unususal removeable element because I'm not at all interested in a duck-under to get into my bedroom!*
And I can't find "sceniced" or "scenicked" any any of my four dictionaries or in the Encarta on-line dictionary either ... but the scenicked "roll-away" section of my layout is planned to include a bascule bridge crossing the Lehigh River between Weissport and Lehighton. There! In the dictionary or not, I'm still going to use it ... it's a model railroad-coined word!
* The Muscovy ducks out in the canal behind my house now have about twenty or so litlle ducklings who swim along in a tight bunch strung out behind Mama Muscovy ... very cute! And Ugly Papa Muscovy is VERY protective of "his woman" ... it's amusing to watch him chase off other interested males, running after them with his neck staight out, head near the ground as they hurriedly waddle away to escape his ire!
And ...HAPPY FATHERS' DAY!
With a yard at either end of your industrial district, I believe you've got the "Beyond the Basement" interchange covered! Let's not get caught up in the "hidden" v "out in the open" debate ... the main tenet is interchange, however you choose to accomplish it. Besides, doesn't the Galveston Branch join your industrial district at or near one of the yards?
Huh, huh? Of course ...! No need to try to cram track between the backdrop and the wall in "no access-land"! Keep on wiring ... you've got it all covered! And Jim ... Nice drawing!
The lever, the eccentric link, the slides ... I like it! I may use that arrangement where I designed in a scenicked "roll-away" section that will take the place of a hinged drop-down or swinging "gate." I'll need to lock it at both ends, but I designed the unususal removeable element because I'm not at all interested in a duck-under to get into my bedroom!*And I can't find "sceniced" or "scenicked" any any of my four dictionaries or in the Encarta on-line dictionary either ... but the scenicked "roll-away" section of my layout is planned to include a bascule bridge crossing the Lehigh River between Weissport and Lehighton. There! In the dictionary or not, I'm still going to use it ... it's a model railroad-coined word!
* The Muscovy ducks out in the canal behind my house now have about twenty or so litlle ducklings who swim along in a tight bunch strung out behind Mama Muscovy ... very cute! And Ugly Papa Muscovy is VERY protective of "his woman" ... it's amusing to watch him chase off other interested males, running after them with his neck staight out, head near the ground as they hurriedly waddle away to escape his ire!
And ...HAPPY FATHERS' DAY!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln