Liberty Industrial Spur

[Green_Elite_Cab]

hi,
A simple cassette, build with two aluminium L-profiles and a piece of wood, can be done in a few minutes. The shopping will take most of the time.
I heard it before, a fear for the saw; a new generation of modellers who have never used their hands in woodworking, shying away for every carpenter's job.
The main reason for a cassette is space. While the permanent layout is before a wall, you can place a cassette temporarily before a door or window you prefer to keep clear of model railroad activities when your room is needed for other purposes.
Keep smiling
Paul

I wouldn't say its the fear of a saw or wood working, at least in my case (I cut and built everything when I was 14).

My concern isn't so much building the main part of the cassette as it is getting it to solidly attach and line up to the layout. I'm sure it can be done, since it is done on layouts all the time. However, you now would have additional concerns of making something that no only lines up accurately with the tracks every time you switch the cassette out, but also is powered (and can stay reliably powered) since the locomotive would need to use the cassette tracks as a switching lead. Because it is used as a lead, it has to be PERFECT everytime it is attached, which can be asking a lot.

Ultimately, the train would spend almost all its time on the cassette, with just a few cars reaching off of it to switch the right-most industries on the layout. You wouldn't really get a good view of a locomotive between to aluminum angles.

Again, not that its impossible, but is it necessary? The cassette adds extra variables that could affect the reliability (and therefore the fun) of operating the layout, despite being space to build the layout across in this instance.