I just installed the lighted switchstand on my michigan city module, but I only have ONE switchstand, and I need to fill the rest of the turnouts, Tomar wasn’t very far from me and I knew it, but my transportation priorities always sent me the other way. Tomar makes a large variety of stuff like passenger train lit end logos, signals, and the switchstand. I decided well, I needed the switchstand quick since I was hightailing it on my module construction and wanted more stands ASAP so I decided to go to the source.
I walked into the shop and a lady was outa site looking for something so I kinda “HI” and she got up and introduced myself, you got some of the lit switchstands, she said yeh, and opened a drawer and asked which kind I wanted, lamp or LED, and I said LED is fine, since mine was lamp they upped to an LED illumination, she mentioned the club layout thru some of the half sentences going on, and I said, uh, hey, could I see this layout? I think it was her husband called on the tele-communicator (Star Trek is here to stay) he was busy working on a plastic machine some debris fell in cleaning it out and had to take it completely apart to clean it, she asked if he had time to show the layout, he said, well, uh, oh yeh, so I bought the stands, and he showed me down to his club layout.
Impressive, double decked, based on Michigan Central going from Detroit to Fort Wayne connections and on and on, showing some interchanges, staging yards, he had a Car Ferry with interchangeable ferries, about 3 with cars on them, we went down one corridor on my left was the major layout, on the right was a narrow 1 track shelf, and it too was double decked, with a unique feature. Both had a moveable bridge, you picked up the entire bridge from one end, angle it over to the main layout and it makes an interchange connection to the main layout, and he was litterally “bending the iron” actually made slip track connections so the whole arrangment bent the flex track into a curve without breaking tr