01-26-2009, 10:01 AM
If you can reach a problem area by ducking under the benchwork, that is a suitable solution. Hopefully if the track work was done well, you won't have to duck under very often. What becomes difficult is when you have a derailment after all of the scenery is in and it occurs at a point that you can't reach without having to destroy scenery to get to the problem. Ducking and crawling as a part of railroad operation is no fun, but an occasional duck and crawl to rerail a train is probably a necessary evil for most railroad designs if there is any width to the bench at all.