I decided to go ahead and make all of my industrial siding turnouts manual controlled, mainly for cost reasons. No sense in spending, for example, almost $80 on turnouts and mounts for the 3 GERN turnouts that won’t see as much action as the mainline turnouts will. I also feel manual control will just be easier to operate for quicker switching maneuvers, etc.. So I opted to use Humpyard throws. I already had two on had and got them installed on the GERN industry.

First I drilled a whole underneath the layout and ran up the two guide cables.

Since the lower level is mostly on 1.5″ of foam, I needed to mount the cable above the plywood bench top, so I made some trenches to lay the cable in, and then assembled the throw mechanism.

I then used some hot glue and some Liquid Nails to fill in the gaps to secure the cable.

Well, now I needed someplace to mount the throws, so I finished up the lower fascia.

And then finally mounted the turnout throw to the fascia.

And tada!