Over the years of standing along railroad tracks, I have a list in my head of things I want to model. In no particular order

Conrail 8907 SW7 This was the switcher that worked my hometown of North Tonawanda for years, and I always had a yen for a decent model of it.

                                                    “best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry”

When does a healthy hobby become a bad habit?

Years of frustration, dollars spent, and time lost may be an indication that the ideas and thoughts in one’s mind cannot sensibly be put to fruition, and might actually be harmful. 

Short story long but I'm Looking for guidance. I have a small HO switching layout. Just the track so far and beginning the scenery rough in. All the track and turnouts are handlaid and I currently have fast tracks bullfrogs for turnout control and powering frogs. I'm thinking I want to add remote control of turnouts with servos. Small layout so I only have 7 turnouts. I see that a tam valley octopus will do 8 so no issue there. I would be using panel mounted dpdt toggles for control, one side to servo other side for led panel indicators.

I needed these and found expensive sources either with online Train store or via supply houses with large quantities.

So using Amazon prime, I found both in single user quantities at one third the price, with free shipping in two days.

So you never know what you find shopping around.

Now comes the hard part of trying to solder onto decoder tabs.