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The OP already had a soldering iron. Dont know why you cant get an answer, but possibly it could be that they import the thing from wherever and the people here in the US dont actually know (Walthers wont know, they are a distributer).  If you want to know the diameter or thickness of something try one of these: <a href="http://www.harborfreight.com/6-inch-dial-caliper-66541.html">http://www.harborfreight.com/6-inch-dial-caliper-66541.html</a> I think stanley makes a plastic one, but I dont remember what those cost.  Or you could use a wire that is slightly smaller than the hole.  Take the crossing signal to your LHS and compare sizes.  Drilling out the hole with a small hand drill shouldnt damage anything (if you use a power drill all bets are off).  [quote user="pkramer6"]HOW ABOUT THIS>>> instead of buying a soldering iron, rosin core and hodge podging it togeather, OR buying more special drill bits and tools to use.....[/quote] Those tools are used for attaching wires to power your track, soldering rail joiners on curves so they don't bend out of shape (applies to atlas flex track), installing DCC decoders and hooking your feeders up to your layouts wiring bus.  The terminal rail joiners are a rip-off (rail joiners are $4 per 48 or $0.12 each and 22ga copper wire is about $0.09 per foot, so a terminal rail joiner costs about $0.30-0.40 to make).  Terminal rail joiners cost $4 for a pair and if you have much more than a oval on a sheet of plywood, its actually cheaper to learn how to solder.... A really cheap soldering iron only costs $10.  A Weller (a good iron) will run you somewhere between $25 and $40 online.  So for the cost of 2-10 sets of terminal joiners you could have a soldering iron that can be use for lots of other things (I built my own multivolt meter from a kit, using a soldering iron).
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