Mianne Lift Bridge in action

cape cod

That is really a nice set up to eliminate crawling under. You gave me a great idea to build one in the doorway leading into my train room. With four decent draw guides and a linear actuator which i was lucky to obtain four of, each able to lift 400 lbs. (they were used to lift tv seta out of cabinets. This should be a fun and rewarding project. 

Thanks for the great video and idea.

Joe

Al:

Your lift bridge application is extremely well done. Nice job.

Unfortunately there is no information posted yet on Mianne's website. I'll be interested to see how it goes together and what it costs; it looks to me like it might be adapted to a lift-out section I have on my layout.

Thanks Joe and Brian. Tim and his wife made a visit this summer and he saw mine in action for the first time. I like to think that it "pushed" him to final development.

When my layout was first designed, some 12 or so years ago, it was done so with duck unders and the "spaghetti" type track work that I have. Finding a place to put the lift was a real challenge without having to alter my trackplan too much.

Al,

You are one innovative guy.

Alan Graziano

Simply fabulous

Hope it's at York, would love to see it in person

Alex

Alan,

And you are more innovative, more creative and more talented!

Now that is cool!

Great idea! Especially for those of us getting less mobile every day!

Wow! Awesome idea. It operates so smoothly. Very impressive. The one small downside is it might not fit if someone has a very short ceiling in their layout room or basement but I would guess that very few people would encounter this problem.

Here's what I posted on the Announcements forum, where Tim Foley introduced this innovation:

"Definitely something I will need to look into for my main layout, which is "U" shaped and built on Mianne benchwork.

At one point I had a non-removable "bridge" spanning the open end of the "U", but removed it because it was a pain in the rear end (not to mention other body parts) to crawl under it.  Removal made access much easier, but limited my curve diameters to 42" on the adjacent legs of the "U".

Since I'm considering changing track types and would much prefer wider-diameter curves for this layout, this new feature from Mianne comes at just the right time."

Hey Al:

That is one nice addition to the Cape Cod Northern. Thanks for sharing the video.

Paul

What an awesome idea.

Tim,

Yes please post the layout display design that is coming to York.