I may do this via small building sceen moduals that I can place on the layout such as a group of small industries that are lit up and mounted to a thin piece of foam core or plywood and can be pluged in via a barrel jack femal plug on the small board. then I could swap these out depending on what I am running steam or modern diesel. _
I also am thinking of having a whole modual section say 3x4 or so that has plywood on both sides of the modual. on one side a turntable with round house and steam facilities such as a coaling tower yard office and other steam related items would be mounted. at least as much as possible so as to avoid removing to much when changing to modern diesel running.
then have on the other side a modern engine house,fueling rack and other diesel related items mounted down. again as much as can be mounted down. then my Idea is to have the modual flip over completly in some way being able to lock it in place after rotating it. this modual would be placed on an end section of the layout. I would then pull the modual away from the layout so as to be able to flip it to which ever side I want to use at the time. then pushing it back into place attaching it to the layout. only problem is having to remove all the engines and buildings and such each time the modual was fliped. this I still just an idea in my head at the moment. I have to plan it out on paper to see if it would work. in theory it sounds like it may just work, but in reality it may not work at all. has anyone ever tryed somthing like this?
the seconds option is maybe to have two seperate engine facilities moduals that are able to be raised and lowered and the benchwork on wheels so when one is being used the other can be stored right below the other one. this would save on room space when storing the moduals.
I am thinking about these to methods for these moduals because it would be just me having to swap them out each time and a 3x4 modual may be two awkward to handle if I were to just have to manually set each modual in place say on benchwork that was slightly lower that the other benchwork.
I maybe over thinking this,but its just an Idea like I said right now.
