Do You have not enough space at your home for Train Layout ?
NO PROBLEM! BUILD THIS :
Use your garage for car and train at same time...I have builded (about on a week) a 5.30x1.30 meters wood plane with 8x2 cm beams and 0.8 cm flat panel. This can go up when car is on garage, and go down where you want operate on layout. The plan suspension use 4 cords (type for building or hill-climbing use, 350 Kg maximum load) and wheels to drive cords from 4 rectangle points to the left side of wall (see left-up side of image) . Cords go down along the wall and are joined with a iron piece. A double 3.5 mm steel cord joins iron piece to little boat winch ; it can easily move up or down entire plan manually. Winch load is up to 500 Kg. Total weight of layout (finished) would be about 90 Kg. When layout is on Up position, another 4 cords fix it on this position with security hooks to improve system reliability. The system runs fine from 5 years. Only year final steel cords repalcing is required for Head Security :-)) .
Layout flat on UP POSITON : Garage free
Layout flat on DOWN POSITON : Working Ready
As you can see, frame is so strong to sustain me..(75 Kg) . On left high side, you can see Steel cords used for winch. To reduce total weight and allows manteinance, many parts of wood flat will be removed after tracks definition...
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