I understand you have come up with a workable solution. So if these additional questions are just beating the proverbial dead horse then feel free to ignore. But in the spirit of a forum discussion, I've never seen a tandem table in action and am curious about how they work.
When the tandem tables reach the destination do you, in practice, have to move one or both back and forth a bit to align each with the stub tracks?
If it is impractical to rigidly lock the two tables together, I don't think a motor speed matching system (series connected motors or whatever) is enough. That is, if I understand your last post about mechanical "slop" you have to independently align the ends of the table to match the respective stubs.
I assume these tables don't have a "snap-into-place" mechanism that insures final alignment on each stub side?
As you've stated, Lionel in their instructions acknowledges the challenge of using tandem tables. One would think if the solution was as simple as re-connecting the motors in series (or whatever) that they would have provided the connectors or instructions to do so.
