My original MRH avatar was a Big Boy hat I picked up in Cheyenne May 2019, and the Y6A 2156 Hat I picked up in Roanoke 2018.  This selfie was taken December 2020, sporting my COVID look:  No barber since December 2019, quit shaving October 2020. The Mickey Mouse shirt here is a souvenir from taking my two wonderful, sweet, beautiful daughters and wife, to Disney Land a few years ago.  I only wear it on special occasions.  Like this photo op. 

Servo motors for turnouts are cheap, about $1.20 ea.  Arduino controllers are $5.00 and handle up to 12 servos.  They connect to a PC with a simple printer cable, Bluetooth or Wifi.  This blog includes how to install the motors in foam board; sources for Arduino controllers & command code, servo motors, WiFi & Bluetooth hardware; and sources for how to connect everything.   

Please follow this link to the photos already posted in my main MRH Blog: 

Lift Bridge on the Pere Marquette C&O

or this link, same thing:  https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/42073

Last February 2018 I was sorting through some boxes and cleaning up the storage room after buying some great shelf units on Amazon.  Inside one of those boxes was a Rivarossi N&W 2-8-8-2 Y6b that I had purchased with lawn care money saved up for an entire season when I was 11 years old, 1965.