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Does anyone have the plans for a home made derailer that I could make from the usual stuff around the layout or bench work area. Or do you know of a previous issue of MR that may have a derailer project in it.  I have a logging siding that has two cars on it that has a slight slope and I want a derailer to stop the two cars from fouling the mainline.

An actual derail or just a car stop? Does it have to work? The September issue of Model Railroader (I think) has an article on building one for stopping cars, not derailing them. I try to keep my trains ON the tracks enough, so I don't know any good ways of purposefully derailing them...

I agree with what Tyler said. If you would like more help, I'd reccomend posting in the Model Railroader Forums, since those get much more traffic.

Link to Model Railroader forums.

Not sure how I jumped over to this forum when I logged in under MR forum. I will watch more closely next time.

Thanks.