Most "dirt" on alot of MRs looks like large angular rocks. Just think if any human being could much less would walk on that kind of surface. Put a human figure foot on your dirt to see how easy it would be to walk on. The Metrolink engineers at Taylor Yard complained so much about walking on mainline ballast they put down pea gravel! Using a dirt surface at industries can also cause problems w/ mud when it rains. That's why most have asphalt or concrete surfaces. In HO or even N scale you should not even be able to see dirt at normal viewing distances of 2'-3' (150'-300').
Yesterday I had a couple of Visitors for an operating session, it went really well Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Nice! Is the crossing ONLY operated by the switch? Or, do you have an automatic way of operating it? JMS
the crossing came with a flasher unit, I just wired it through a switch, the crossing is manually operated like most would be in any industrial operation
Nice! The circuit I built(using plans from the inter-web) has a "switching operations" switch built into it. It turns the flashers on, and once the switch is turned off... the flashers stay on until the "off" sensor it triggered. Great thing to have when one has a manually operated switch for a "run-around" located a couple of feet(scale) from a crossing. JMS
