Staging Yard Solution HELP!

I don't know what your layout looks like but here is my solution to a backroom storage - staging area.  I will be installing a cheap camera and 4" - 7" display in the main layout area so I don't have to walk around to the back room work shop.  I am all command control also.  There is a switch just inside the room so each shelf has two tracks.  If the switching was any more complex I would have to walk around to the back room to watch the arrival or departure.  My shelves are wide enough that thee is room for storage of another row of cars.

Hope this helps.

Dan

I don't have an example O scale version but here is an HO version of a SECTOR plate yard.  Mounted on a door and pivoted from right front corner.  Russ

These are both so cool! Always something new on this forum. Love it! Thanks for sharing.

Something like this is what I was thinking. Service track would line up

directly with one of the shelf tracks so trains would always stay on rails.

Mark

The problem with that design is, your trains will need to exit from the ends. Supporting the shelves and allowing them to pivot would be very difficult. I don't think I'd like entire trains rocking and swinging.

I have seen a series of shelves stacked that can be raised and lowered. kind of like a vertical transfer table. I want to say there was an article in Model Railroader, 10 or 15 years ago.

I am building a verticle elevator using a 4' x 6' piece of plywood. I, unlike you, don't have an 8' long space. I mounted the plywood on heavy duty drawer slides and am using a trailer winch, multiple pulleys/blocks and steel cable to raise and lower it. I placed track on my first shelf today. I hope to get a lot done over the holidays and will post pictures later.