Serious switching!

Here is another update showing what's been happening on the Lyn Valley North Western. Have most of the track laid on the second peninsula now. All of my switch machines on the second peninsula are Tortoise machines...........................

Except One.

I hooked it up to a switch on the layout and you have to actually throw it manually like the real thing. The yellow handle is not really prototypical but I did it more to save knees as this is a high trafic area. Here are some pictures showing how I hooked it up. It was fairly easy. The biggest problem I had was getting it in the basement.

The small dowel holds the larger dowel in place so it doesn't slip down out of the half drilled hole in the bottom of the subroadbed plywood. It can also float back and forth to adjust for the change in distance from the dowel to the switch stand when the switch is thrown.

Here you can see how I hooked it up under the layout so it pushes the wire over that moves the points of the switch. All I have to do is add a relay to change frog polarity.