Some years ago when my eyes were still good I was in a N scale club. With a small room staging tracks used up too much space so I built a vertical yard to store the trains, operation was manual but serviceable. Now days my big trains run on the floor and soon to be outside this summer. The problem is my knees are old and my grandkids are not always available to help, plus I might want to invite some other oldies over for a session. None of us like getting down to put trains on the track so I've been thinking of a different version of the vertical staging yard. A workbench with maybe a 6 ft section where locomotives (and cars) can be set on the track, then lowered to the floor level track module, the same idea could work for getting heavy units to a ceiling level track. I might even build two,.. one for the garage and another for an upstairs ceiling layout that my wife suggested (to get my trains off the floor),. Hmmm, if I modified my display shelves then equipment could be easily moved to the elevator track. Some sort of safety side rails would be necessary,.. a locking alignment mechanism,.. gearhead motor,.. (actually still have one from an old telco CO switch),
This is what happens when an idea starts cooking,... might have to lubricate the brain cells with a bit of red wine,.
