What is anyone doing to prevent signals being damaged? I don’t care for the plastic shields. How often are your signals getting damaged? Is it worth the effort to add a break-a-way feature?
Thanks
Don Carman
The signals on our modular club display layout are holding up just fine. The block is blocked by plastic around the outside (they can come right up to the layout, no “moat”), but on the inside, there is no protection. Far as I know, no one has ever knocked one over, and they are NOT detatched when we break down the modules and load them onto the transport racks and then to the trailers.
–Randy
I have working signals on a couple of N scale T-Trak modules. Right now I have no barriers around them. But at the last show they were used at, a couple of small children were touching them. So I may place some plexiglass to protect them from the small hands.
My signals are made of brass. They are also mounted using a modular plug-in system that allows a little movement on the layout.
http://www.waynes-trains.com/site/Signals/OtherSignalStuff/ModularSignalMounting.html