I have been planning a new basement layout. I am trying to make sure I have plenty of room for my yard and the necessary ladders. I like what I see with the ME ladder system switches, but I'm curious if anyone else had used them? Reliable? How much space does the ladder take up? I printed the templates and laid them out. Looks like the a-e system takes up about 4 linear feet. Is that what others are seeing?

In the attached image, I have mocked out a road shape from my ice house across the tracks to the "outside". As you can see, it crosses two industry spurs. They are more than a standard double track distance apart. What I need to know is - would there be crossbucks at both tracks or just one pair with - maybe - "Two Tracks" on the posts? Or, maybe as they are industry spurs, no crossbucks at all?

I have managed to get quite a few little tasks done on the layout over the last few days. I painted all the ties, cut out and painted the paved areas for the Latex and Lumber Distributors, painted the road surface, and made some lumber loads.  More details and pictures in a following post.

Craig

So - what functions do you use the most and what buttons do you have them assigned to?

I've been having a good time playing around with my new LokProgrammer and have been pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to change function mapping.

Perhaps TOO easy . . . because I just can't decide how I want to map the buttons.