You may have seen this idea a few months ago as I was experimenting with this on a pool table. Seeing how it worked, I made it into a 3’X 8’ portable layout. It’s pretty easy to transport. The track and draw bridge are fasten to the table so only have to put the plasticville houses and scenery in boxes.
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Excellent!
;D
Mitch
Well done!
Peter
Nicely done - very entertaining. In addition to the linked video, I watched your video on using the 6-2317 drawbridge. Did you do all of the start/stop control via the drawbridge, or did you add anything? Would appreciate it if you could post a schematic of the wiring.
@Mallard4468 posted:Nicely done - very entertaining. In addition to the linked video, I watched your video on using the 6-2317 drawbridge. Did you do all of the start/stop control via the drawbridge, or did you add anything? Would appreciate it if you could post a schematic of the wiring.
Seconded! 
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Mitch
Great Job Miggy!!
Very cool. Nice job.
Bob
Thanks for the compliments, it was a fun project. The start/stop portion is controlled by the bridge position. There are 4 insulating pins, 2 on the top and 2 on the lower section of tracks, one on each side of the bridge. When the bridge starts up it immediately cuts the power to the top track section close to the bridge. When it's fully up it then applies power to the lower track section. The sections outside of the insulating pins have power all the time via jumper wires. The operation of the bridge is controlled by a remote button attached to a 10ft. pigtail wire so I could walk around and let the visitors operate the bridge.
I'll try to draw us a schematic and post later.
Doug
@boomer0622 posted:Thanks for the compliments, it was a fun project. The start/stop portion is controlled by the bridge position. There are 4 insulating pins, 2 on the top and 2 on the lower section of tracks, one on each side of the bridge. When the bridge starts up it immediately cuts the power to the top track section close to the bridge. When it's fully up it then applies power to the lower track section. The sections outside of the insulating pins have power all the time via jumper wires. The operation of the bridge is controlled by a remote button attached to a 10ft. pigtail wire so I could walk around and let the visitors operate the bridge.
I'll try to draw us a schematic and post later.
Doug
Looking forward to the schematic. From the drawbridge video, it looks like there are a lot of wires and lockons, but it's hard to tell where everything is hooked up.
Here's my schematic to the best I can remember, I know it looks pretty crude.
The 5 dots in a row are the terminals on the bridge. The inside distance between the insulating pins is about 30 inches.
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