Reply to "Photos of my layout"

Originally Posted by laming:

Great looking layout, Lee. Thanks for sharing your work and your memories.

I'm amazed that you have used only two switches in all of that sprawling layout! I'm slowly amassing what I need in HO to create an "around the walls" layout with an urban switching theme within a room only 9'6" x 12"9" (plus a 2' x 9' 6" closet)... and my track plan has already used around 50 switches!!!

Anyway, good work!

I had 22 switches on the layout eight years ago, and a nice trainyard. However, I never operated them: I like to set locos moving and let them cruise for hours, so when I rebuilt it I removed all. The two I have are not "operable" in the normal sense: they are remote control Fastrack switches but I cut the control cable at the switched - I have one at the head of the reversing loop on each end of Loop 2, where is anti-derailing feature operates as the train comes back around the other direction.

5/25/149:42 AM

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