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Is there any point for operational prototypical cross gate?
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[quote user="leighant"] <p>Is there any point? I have one point on my layout where a major boulevard crosses a major railroad line-- both are important-- and no room for grade separation, which real highway department tries to do. I think it will be interest "event" in operating my railroad for crossing gates to operate 10 or 12 times in an operating session. Each mainline train only crosses that point once, and it is an "event". If trains run roundy-round and keep crossing the same crossing every 60 seconds or so, I think the effect would be lost. Possibly even negative. Maybe a couple other points with flashing lights and bell which are sometimes set off by switching...</p><p>How much I am willing to spend? Depends. Will NOT be first thing I will install. Probably Bachmann plastic dummies first.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>You also have a good point! I had in my on my firt layout...Bachmann operating crossing...every 30 sec, it would dip dip dip and then again and again...LOL</p><p>I will have about 20' of mainline on this second one...but just talked to the wife, I was gonna get rid off a single seat sofa taking up valuable space but she won't let me...so might have togo back to the drawing board a bit...LOL</p><p>Back to the dumy one, it was fun for a while but then it start to interfere with lighter loco's...so I took it out...this thing just get more interesting and more expensive the deeper you go...theoretically, all Digitrax decoders hae a transponder built in and if you us their system with a transponding block occupancy detector, then you won't need the external detecting electronics, just need thier accessory decoder to drive the flasher and Tortoise. I think NCE also have a similar block setup.</p>
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