With the swing gate mechanically completed today I installed the two micro-switches to protect trains by killing track power when the gate is open.  I cut gaps in the track a foot from the gate on either side and then installed micro-switches on each side of the gate to kill track power to the approach track to the gate.  If the gate is opened even 1/8" on the side opposite the hinge it opens the circuit.  The micro-switch arms can be bent to be adjusted if things change over time.

This is the switch on the end opposite the hinge.

AGN 502

I'm working on a station.  I gathered pieces from the scrap box, such as misc. and mixed-match wall sections from Walthers and DPM, pieces from a canopy kit from Kibri, and sheet and strip styrene for the roof structures. Here are some pictures of the progress.  It's still "under construction".

Just a video showing how I mud and tape drywall. Maybe a couple of useful tips.

This is a video of the club shortly before it moved. June 2013

Just messing about with my iPhone and iMovie to make this very brief video from my layout...

On a pleasant summer afternoon the CNR mixed train crosses the bridge at Thornbury on its return trip from Meaford to Collingwood, ON.

The build of Holland Furnace Co. is finished and is in it's location in Ashland Ind. Area, Ashland, WI on my HO scale CNW Peninsula Div. RR. I still will have to add some people & maybe interior & exterior lighting, but that will come later.

Richard Superintendent CNW Peninsula Div.

blog - http://mrhmag.com/blog/richard_harden

I am looking for your Pros and Cons on DCC wiring.

Here's the situation: I started laying track awhile back and used some of those rail joiners with the wire attached - WRONG! When you ballast and they "disappear," you can't find them when you have a problem. So, as I progressed, I made drops where required and soldered wire to rail and that wire to a buss with a Scotch-Lok or stripped and soldered. So far so good.