Been doing some signals, and have done some soldering of magnetic wire to thicker wire to make connections to terminal strips easier and such.  I end up with the inter-twined group of 'hair' hanging down below the signal, and have always been concerned about snagging when I do any more wiring under there, as I always seem to have more to do.  I generally stick a tube of the same size as the signal base tube into the scenery hole, feed the 'hair' down through, remove the tube out the bottom, and there's my wires ready to be soldered/attached to the power.

I was looking around at decoders and am not finding anything but the full blown signal head decoders that say they will control lights.   I'd like to be able to turn on and off the street and building lighting (all incandescent right now, but some will be LED eventually) from the throttle or JMRI, but not sure what I should use...

I have bought some Micro Engineering "DCC friendly" turnouts.

"The metal frog can be powered", the closure rails get power "via built-in jumpers from their adjacent stock rails"

The instruction says: "Switch rails (points): Power is already supplied to the two Switch rails via the built in hinge rail joiners at the closure rail/switch rail junction"

I am looking for 22.5 and 30 degree crossings templates that I can print and test on the layout.  I tried FastTracks without success.

Anyone know of a site?

Thanks...Ken