That's definetly the 'mac daddy'
thanks for the info.
Well, here is the "mac daddy" of sliding drawer staging: the MEGA-DRAWER on Silicon Valley Lines layout:
29-page PDF document overview of the MEGA-DRAWER:http://www.siliconvalleylines.com/downloads/SVL_MegaDrawer.pdf
MEGA-DRAWER page with photos on the SVL website:http://www.siliconvalleylines.com/benchwork/megadrawer.html
They also have a helix that hurts my brain to comprehend. Jamie
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Wow, that's a good thread. thanks.
I use a removable sliding drawer on my HO layout to provide access to an inaccessable area. Picture below shows the sawmill complex installed on a removable sliding drawer.
Here's an earlier thread on the same subject, with lots of pics.
Svein
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John Signor wrote about his manually-operated version:
Railroading in a drawer Model Railroader, December 2000
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I believe that there was an article in MR that showed various methods of staging. They had sector plates and I think one design which was basically a transfer table for entire trains. I don't remember how the transfer table was mounted. I think they addressed the question of track alignment.
So far as your derailing concern goes, I believe the ideas they had were manually operated, so any derailments caused by the movement of the table get classified as "operator error".
Hello,
Have any of you fine folks tried this?
Staging that is a basically a large sheet of plywood that slides on drawer hardware to put trains on/off differernt tracks?
My worries are:
1) the drawer moves too fast and jostles the trains (N scale) and knocks them all to Hades
2) good alignment with the entry/departure tracks on either end.
One thought is that I could some-how rig a geneva wheel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_Cross_mechanism ) mechanism that could motroize the whole thing with good alignment of tracks, but 1) it might be too hard on the trains (#1 above) and two might be so darned complicated to set up it's not worth the effort
thanks