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Can you possibly hinge your lift out bridge as the entrance to your round the room?

It is not what you are considering but my hinged drop section has worked well on two different layouts and may give you some thoughts on placing your bridge. The Drop Section shown  was recycled for my little round the wall 9x16 attic layout built in Jan-Feb '10 to the point of running trains but now unfinished and dormant due to health issues. Jim Barrett of OGR can show you how to hinge a bridge to swing up.IMG_1582-001IMG_1580IMG_1782Shown above is my very simplistic control panel for operating 17 remotely located track switches from the homemade panel. I use DC Tortoise Motors for each switch (about $13) which enables me to control them with simple on/off toggle switches. The direction the toggle handle is leaning tells me at a glance at the schematic which way the remote track switch is oriented---to the "thru"(mainline) or "out" (to a switch or spur). The off position of the toggle represents one position of the track switch points and the other one the on position. The DC motors are just positive and negative so to change any orientation of direction merely involves exchanging the + and (--) conductors feeding the motor.

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