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[quote user="cpeterson"]Any suggestion on LED type, size, etc?  Also, would it be possible to light both a red and green coming off both leads to the tortise so you could have one direction lit green with the other red, or better yet, do they make bicolored LEDs?[/quote] Yes, they make bicolor red/green LED's that change color depending on polarity. What I do is hook two of them up in opposite (i.e. long lead to long lead or short lead to short lead) so that one is always red and one always green. Then it's simply a matter of wiring them between your toggles and tortoise and installing them in the control panel. Now you'll always have one path green and one red. I wire all my toggles, tortoises, etc. identically, so I know everything will synch up, but even if the LED's don't synch to the actual turnout position, you just flip around the connection to the #1 and #8 terminal on the tortoise and they do. That last bit, incidentally, is another reason I'm sold on the edge connectors. I can just hook up the whole works, and if the LED's and actual turnout are out of synch, I pull the connector off, turn it around and stick it back on...
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