from northern NJ.   Heard stories about the Mahanoy Plane from family that grew up there.  

Building small (30 sq ft) DCC point to point layout

• hand-laid turnouts (Tony Koester method)
• vertical staging elevator (photo)
• NCE compatible Arduino cab and laptop cabbus monitor
• networked Arduino signal system and graphical layout display on laptop
• simple LED turnout position indicator
• Arduino turntable: optical position and friction drive
• Working on simplified block occupancy and turnout position detection