Locking up your layout - 8
effectively preventing access to the track unless the switch
was “unlocked” ahead of time.
Switch locks can also be used in a purely cosmetic fashion.
You could install the cam locks into your fascia and have
them hooked up to… nothing. Crews would be asked to
unlock and relock switches as part of their tasks without
physically or electrically making a connection with your lay-
out. For some, this level of simulation may seem like a gim-
mick of pure imagination, but it’s a simple way to easily add
locks to your operating scheme.
14
14: The piano wire is threaded through a hole drilled
in the shim and bent along the bottom so gravity
will pull both the shim and the wire down when
unlocked.
MRH-Dec 2013
