My grandson is fascinated with trains.  I want to build a layout for him in our guest room.  It will be 8" x 4' area.  I have been gathering information and parts, materials rolling stock etc.  I have a mixed bag of easy track and reg track with no roadbed attached.  I want this to be a permanent installation and need to decide which track to concentrate on getting.  All of the track has been accumulated by winning actions on other things on ebay. 

Here comes someone who's managed to make electroluminescent lights into something that might actually be useful for illumination:

http://www.technewsdaily.com/15747-new-light-bulbs-made-of-glowing-plastic.html

 the location where i'm working  i found a tool ? and a brick which is very old with the letters w.va c p co eli   P.S. i found them under the building, i know it is something for a railroad but what is it can. someone help me with this and tyvm for you help

I hope this does not sound too ridiculous.

Lately I've been having some issues with my cab buss and some loose connections at the RJ connectors.  The terminals on the board themselves seem to be a little sloppy and causing the cab buss to fail, i.e. throttle no workie.

I've seen it done on the club layout where the cab buss has been hard wired to the UTP panel board.  I've been meaning to ask the membership how this is done (where to solder the wires) however, I thought I throw this out here too.