Locking up your layout - 1
R
ailroads lock everything. From turnouts to gates to sig-
nals, prototype railroads place their critical infrastruc-
ture under lock and key. The added safety and security
ensures that only the right people have key access (pun
intended) to the essential equipment of a railroad’s operations.
Locks are such an integral part of the day-to-day running of a
railroad that having them represented on our model railroads
is almost required. As I developed my HO scale Iowa Interstate
Locking up your layout
– James McNab
Photos by author
Adding and incorporating equipment locks to
your layout and operating sessions ...
MRH-Dec 2013
