 Well, you've caught me here in the lift out hatch at Oak Hill Provides access for the Y tail track up here It also gives one heck of a nice view of the train going by it. This hatch is here to allow access to the Tail of the Y track over here. There's a turn that and I need a couple and uncoupled cars And also it makes it possible to work on scenery in the back corner I got the idea for this hatch from a picture. I saw of John Allen's gory and defeated railroad He had a hatch like this in the town of Port and I thought that's a good idea So I decided to build me one too when I needed access back here This hatch lifts up and latches in place. I put a couple of cleats in These are just screwed in place on the bottom and I can take and move them back and forth like this The hatch can go down, but like this the cleat holds it in place. This piece of plywood rests on top of the cleat To keep the hatch aligned. I've got a pair of steel drawer slides one here And one on the other strut I got them down at home Depot. They're just standard heavy-duty steel roller bearing drawer slides You can see how they guide the hatch up and down. Let me lower the hatch so you can see it in action One of the challenges of a hatch like this is making it disappear when it's down If it was an absolutely flat tabletop terrain, it wouldn't be so difficult But because I've got contours in the train. It was a little trickier So what I ended up doing was using pink foam I put a piece of pink foam on the edge here and I put a piece of pink foam down here And then I used a hot wire to cut both of those pieces of pink foam at the same time So I'd get the contours to match did the same thing over on this side too Down on the bottom and up on the top then I took the hatch off of the Took this plywood hatch off of the the risers and I went over to the workbench and I filled in Pink foam around it using the guides at the edge has got to Let me know where the contours of the hill was so I could fill in the rest of the hatch to match And it worked out pretty good. It was a lot of work Well, here I am underneath Oak Hill directly underneath the access hatch before I put it up These are the struts for the hatch here these two pieces apply with this one and this one go up and down with the Hatch this one and this one on the outside are firmly attached to the bench work in between are those steel drawer slides I would showed you before Let's go ahead and put the hatch up I grab here and put my head on the bottom of it and push up and up. She goes smooth as anything they flip the cleats in place to hold it and Voila, we've got access There's the cleat and the other cleats over here. You can't see it down here, we have to shoot staging on the Bear Creek in South Jackson and With people coming up in the hatch like this You can see how an elbow could easily be knocking cars off the track So I put this piece of plywood in here sort of a guard so it protects the trains that are in the staging yard Now there's one other thing you notice that I'm bent over here This isn't going to work if the track is very close to the floor the track in Oak Hill is 63 inches off the floor Which means that the bottom of the bench work here is about 58 inches off the floor so I can get in here by bending over a bit But if it was down lower, so I had to crawl underneath that would get to be really painful So this this access hatch in Oak Hill is working for me just because Oak Hill is up high enough for me to Be able to get underneath easily