I have moved into adding foam around the track work that has been laid already.  I want to run trains in the mountain area without the risk of locos or rolling stock dashing to the floor.  Hence the foam.

Now I don't know about you but I have worked with foam before...in the garage...and it can get messy.  Well the new layout is in the 'man cave'.  This is a "den/extra room" that I installed double doors on and thereby was granted free reign of my new kingdom.  Behind closed doors, but nevertheless free reign!!

In another post of mine "Got Pot?"  http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/8123 I showed how to make flower pots from "findings" and Noch "flowering plants".  One poster asked about cheaper alternatives to the Noch product.  Below is a flower pot with flowers made from a wooden bead where the flowers are "sticks" from SuperTrees(tm) and the flowers peddles are Woodland Scenics "Flowers".  I dabbed the sticks in white glue and then in the WS flowers.  The flower pot sits just outside Midge's Corner Cafe in dow

I need help to wire up two road gates at a road crossing.  The layout is Lionel with 2 main parallel tracks using 3-rail track.  The layout has 2 power packs, one for each main line.  I need the road gates to operate (gates go down to block traffic when a train approaches), one gate on each side of the two main tracks.  The gates need to operate if there is a train traveling on main line 1 or 2, operating the same gates.  Lionel sells mechanical pressure switc