I was curious on how the different lighting looks in photos of my railroad.  It was originally illuminated by track lights only with halogen bulbs but they were too hot.  I installed the Michael Rose LED light board and then later switched out my halogen bulbs in my track lights with LED floodlights that are 525 lumens / 5,000 K each.

I am preparing to install my first two Tortoise switch machines, controlled by the NCE Switch 8 Mark II.  This particular pair of switch machines will throw a pair of turnouts whose diverging routes connect, such that either both should always be aligned straight or both should be aligned diverging.

In order to have a certainly amount of variability in our traffic and simulate slight variations in customer demand so that some customers don't always get cars in a session, at our club we developed a basic spreadsheet using a random number generator function to come up with how many cars to order for different customers or car types.