Hey guys I lack creativity ideas really bad.  I have the Zephyr and I am trying to figure out how to mount it so that it doesn't move. I am mainly just using it for the power to the track as I have an external throttle plugged into it.  My facia is on the front of the layout with a curtain hanging down below to hide the contruction junk LOL.  I just don't know or figure out how to permanently mount it.  

Has anyone tried to make a switch machine using 12v DC door lock actuators?   I'm going to give it a shot as they come with two screw mounting holes, the wire, and a bracket (for $2.00)  I think I can mount this below the sub-roadbed and use as the bracket as a fulcrum with the wire to move the points.   I bought some reversing switches ($1.67) to control it, and the door locks come with the advantage of shutting off power once thrown in either direction.  

I have my auto-reverser finally and am ready to wire up another reverse loop. This one however isn't just an isolated track, it has a couple of turnouts within the reversing section so I'd like to get several feeders to the track. Should I run a sub-bus of 12g wire along the track in the reversing loop, and run feeders from that? I don't think my 12g wire will fit into the auto-reverser. Would you run from the existing bus to the auto-reverser with smaller wire, then from the AR to a new bus with smaller wire? Or should I just use my feeder wire for the whole thing?

On my swing gate, I'm running two tracks over it. Do I need to use a micro switch on each end of each track at the ends of the gate which would be 4 for 2 tracks, or can I use 2 micro switches for both tracks, one at each end of the gate? Also, does it matter which rail has an insulated rail joiner put in on each track on both sides of the gate? I don't understand the wiring of this all too well from the bus wires to the track, to the micro switches, so any help on this too would be appreciated. Thanks.