Manual - Remote control Switches

[Anonymous]

Here is a neat little idea, I thought I’d share with you. In my layout room we have 3 model railroads staked on top of each other. Ho , N, G Ho on the bottom and G on the top. With the G scale at or near my eye level reaching switches was a real pain. This ment climbing up a step stool throwing the switch, then dragging the step stool down the isle and climbing back up it to get the next. UUGGG! Welp my railroading budget is NOW vary small. So not only where electric switch machines to expensive but the N scale model railroad just 7” underneath the G scale made remote control switch’s out of the question. One of my friends said he had seen an article how someone used a coat hanger to throw the switch. Its really simple, The coat hanger runs threw the edge of the layout and threw a small block of wood and is bent up threw the plywood table top into the switch throw bar. Then you put a loop on the end of the coat hanger, and wal – la you have a remote controlled manual switch. I then added a small lever that locks the switch in place ( for the mainline in normal position ). This was necessary because we found that when walking up and down the isle we bumped the coat hanger rods and left a switch ½ open. This is bad when your G scale is 5’ 6” off the floor. Sense these manual remote controls have been added I have found the layout much easer to run and have had many ours of enjoyment.

This is the walkway with 3 scales of model railroads:


This shows the top view of one of my Manual - Remote control Switches:


here ypu see a switch controll locked in the noraml pos.



here it is in the open Pos.



Here is the under view. te wood block provides support for the coat hanger:
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[bman36]

Hey there,
Thanks for the tip! Enjoy the forum! Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

I really cannot understand why you are doing all this. Their is only one sacle and that "G" scale and all the rest are for kids. I also cannot understand why you are running G scale indoors.


Puzzled