The short run-around has been working quite well, and so I decided to torture myself by using the siding to get around the passenger car. Half-way down, I found that the switch for Lee’s manufacturing was reversed, and looked down to rediscover that there is no control for it. That is why I hadn’t noticed it was not set to normal.
The reason there are no controls for either of the turnouts off the siding is two-fold. First of all, they’ve not been needed as there is no freight moving on the layout yet. Secondly, I’ve never been happy with the operation of the control rods. When they were installed, I routed them through a wicked S-bend to get to the fascia at a perpendicular. The friction through this bend made the turnouts very difficult to operate.
In the years since the turnouts were installed, however, I’ve figured out exactly how they would be controlled, and this mechanism doesn’t require a perpendicular approach for the control rod. So, while I could have reached far under the layout and pushed the Bullfrog mechanism directly, I decided to fix those blooming control rods once and for all.
It sounds like an easy job, but you must understand the contortions required for working beneath Pembroke. There is not enough space to sit on the desk beneath, and twisting and reaching far behind my monitor required so much groaning and grunting that my wife called down to see if I needed an ambulance!
Well, eventually it was done, and I put everything back together again, and realigned the Lee’s manufacturing switch for the siding. The little train did derail, as I expected it would, but at least it derailed on the right route!
Pembroke:87 
one word: perseverance!