... sure I will refer to on many occasions, ken posted: 13 Mar 2010 10:44 from: Jim Guthrie Kenneth Beckett wrote: In an earlier reply I asked if this worked with a Tortoise point motor, on closer examination it seems this set up is designed for a wire and tube operation. So that was a rather silly question. I will have too many widely spread apart turnouts to adopt this approach. Ken Here's a picture of the same idea but with a Tortoise motor driving the sub-trackbase tiebar. 25_130526_430000000.jpg This is for a Scale7 layout so is a bit chunkier than the N scale version. In this case the Tortoise drives straight on to the tiebar, but there are many other ways of connecting the Tortoise to the tiebar which might better suit your purposes. There's also the normal health warning when using Tortoise motors- they are big. The above setup is just under four inches tall- from the edge connector on the motor to the surface which mounts on the underside of the track base. So you would need quite ...