I now have three locomotives using BlueRail blue tooth boards and Staunton dual battery BPS boards. And I will never have to wire any of the 25-30 turnouts, nor any sidings or spurs on my layout.

I hosted a slide night last week for some friends both local as well as from Portland and Seattle.  It was the annual "The Americans are coming!" slide night that we have had on the US Thanksgiving weekend for at least the past 20 years or so.  One of my guests (thanks Barry!) brought along a copy of VIA Rail Canada Consists and marshalling of trains bulletin from October 1978.  What a treasurer trove of information it is.  

I just noticed in the latest Athearn announcements, http://www.athearn.com/Articles/Hobbywire.aspx , that the new Genesis UP FEFs will feature Loksound decoders and LED lighting.  I believe this is a first for Athearn, and I presume it's indicative of their future direction for all models.  Made my day!  Great decision on both counts Athearn!

Stumbled across this has some amazing depots there are 1408 of them listed in here from around the missouri form all sorts of eras enjoy. 

http://www.missouridepots.com/