Advice on Turnout Controls

[teejay]

The picture shows several turnouts just sitting in position , unfastened , as I configure the track . The plan would be to house the turnout control knobs in the grey coloured side rails of the benchwork . If the knob was situated in the middle of the 3" pine siderail , the distance vertically to the highest point of the trackwork is about 6" . It varies , depending on the turnout , between 5" and 6" .

I was thinking that if I could twist the knobs ( rather than push-pull ) , I could run a wire horizontally toward the turnout , have a vertical wire to the actual turnout , and join that 90 degree " angle " I'v created , with rubber tube . Not sure what mechanism would move the switch lever itself .

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