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No photos to post yet, but I finished my burned-out-barn project (just need to plant trees!) and have started installing the new 14 gauge bus wire which should fix the power problems I had during my last operating session. The main bus wire is in so I just need to cut the feeders off the old 18 gauge bus and solder them to the new one. I've also started repairing an old cast-metal searchlight signal that I'm going to wire up to protect the reversing sections from idiots like myself who run trains onto it without checking which way it is set. [swg] In theory, it protects the rarely-used diamond for an old branch (the continuous run connection) and is required by a legal technicality. It will be constantly RED unless the lift bridge is down, the reversing segment is set to LAYOUT, and the request switch is set to REQUEST in which case it will turn GREEN. The request switch will keep it from showing a green block while there's a train approaching from staging behind the signal. Shutting off the request switch or flipping the reversing segment to STAGING will put it back to RED as the train is past the signal.
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