Staging Track Plan
July 28th, 2009
The red track would be the lift, the blue track is staging track located under the indicated lower deck.
The loop area I’ll actually be able to use for the gravel industry. I can cover the exposed benchwork and make the lower deck expand over it (hiding the stage track underneath) and extend the spur line to it. I would then wrap a fascia board around it.
So would this be, in essence, an extension o fthe aluminum channel cassetts you use now? I envision just taking it around the curvein some sort of bracket system, which could then be lifted, shifted forward a few inches (all manually) and then set down in a set of brackets at the staging level. Or something like that.
And as to not having basements, that’s why you build a separate train building out back.
Sort of.
The aluminum channel will change to a single piece of plywood attached to a .5″ thick aluminum bar (for strength across the 6′ gap). The wood portion would continue through a 15″ radius curve against the wall.
This single piece (shown in red above) will now become the lift, attached to drawer slides on the layout and opposite wall. The lift will manually be moved up/down from the lower/upper/staging deck. It will connect to the staging deck (about 6″ under the lower deck) behind my computers on the southern wall in the diagram above.