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Is there any point for operational prototypical cross gate?
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<p>[quote user="ndbprr"]Anthing that adds movement outside the trains adds to the realism. Check out an article in MR in the early 80's by Odegard. he scratchbuilt the gates from brass and drove them with wires from below. That should cut your cost considerably at the cost of time however.[/quote]</p><p>Hi, I think the cost of the signal and gates themselves are relatively cheap...the expensive part is when you want to automate them. Which is the sad part of model railroading I suppose...anything that moves cost money! LOL</p><p>But totally agree with you, movements, lights, sound adds realism to any model railroad layout. I have just started reading this Klamblah book called 'Realistic Model Railroad Operations' and it does have a very good point; 'If you build model railroad just to have trains going around, you will get tired of it around about lap number 10 and that's when your layout start to collect dust where as if you build a railroad for ralistic operations, then the layout will lat for a lot more years!'.</p>
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