donkey tricks
Tom,
If you rig that donkey there is a trick you can employ. The skid is not decked under the winches, so there are holes under the drums.
What I did on my big donkey @ Terrapin, is I wrapped each drum with grey button thread to simulate the cable (Button thread is strong, and doesn't fuzz, so it looks ok in those close up pictures.
When the rigging is done, the lines to the drums are not actually attached to the drums. they pass over the drum, through the hole in the skid under the drum, and then through a hole drilled through the scenery under the skid. I run a couple feet of line hanging under the layout, and then hook a fishing sinker weight to it. the weight keeps the line taught as everything else expands and contracts with temperature and humidity changes, and best of all, when you snag the high line with your elbow while cleaning track, or trying to re rail that car under the maze of cables, the line has lots of play, and isn't attached to your donkey doesn't go flying.
The guy wires are just tied off to stumps so they are still expsed to snaggage. It might be possible to drill out a dowel, to treat guy wires the same way, and just fake the tie off.
Bill Nelson