Mark,
Thanks. I 'was looking at your layout under a different post and it looked like you were doing a bridge plan. Any way I can help, let me know. Like this new train room, on my old layout I needed a bridge at the entrance and my scratch built wooden one served me well for a number of years. The keys for me have been to get the pivot point at the exact top of the tracks, use two heavy duty hinges for strength, and make sure you have an automatic track power kill switch (OGR Backroom has a great column on this) or you will crash your engine(s) when you forget to lower the bridge. I also put a simple slide lock to lock down the bridge so it never shifted while I ran trains.
Mike
