Okay, just to break the insults for a bit, here's some pics from the chaos of my shed showing just how low bodgery can go in the art of baseboards....
The aim was to make the traverser "user friendly" from in front of the layout rather than behind, and simplify it a bit as it didn't slide properly on the old drawer runners, probably because of my inept carpentry and inability to get them exactly parallel..
Firstly controls were relocated to the front - a point switch rod on the left here and the section switches:-
The power and sound box feeds are under the canal, along with the other point switch rod:-
The original board that hid the fiddleyard from the front has been removed and replaced with a cut down bit just at the end, and a rudimentary form of "blank bridge" at the end to hide the trains a bit more behind the old building:-
Power is fed via audio plugs from the layout to the short fixed track at the end of the fiddleyard. The traverser deck now just sits on the board loose and can be shuffled across easily enough - only two positions are required. There will be small bits of brass to connect the tracks to feed power - haven't finished that bit yet!!
From a low angle the view block works quite well. I don't have any British O Scale up the shed, so you'll have to do with a Gratuitous Soo Line picture to demonstrate it....
) was to have an interest in - and model, preferably in 7mm or larger - the Western Region of BR....
