Jon, thanks. It is quite a chair. We got the standard walnut with the chocolate leather (also in the standard line) when you get into the more exotic woods and finishes the chair can jump almost 2 grand. It's expensive enough as it is for us. It's really comfortable. There's a reason why it's been sold for over 50 years. The only thing different is they no longer use Brazilian Rosewood as they did originally. My dad as a child (after 1910) had a square piano made out of solid rosewood. It was a terrible piano and replaced by a Steinway Vertigrand that was built in 1905. The rosewood piano then served as a table surface in my grandmother's tailor shop. After her passing, my father had to pay a salvage man to remove it. I'm sure, just the Rosewood today would have been worth something. The Steinway still exists. It's in my son's home where my two granddaughters are learning to play piano. You can't beat a Steinway.
RE: the railroad. I am going to change that wiring to what I suggested yesterday. I'm going to splice the two circuits together that are currently going through the interlock and bypass it, and then interrupt the main two lines coming in from the transformer, thereby shutting off track power to every section when the gate opens, and ensuring there are no other current paths to energize those track sections. Furthermore, I would be assured that momentum can't carry the trains into the breach when the power shuts off. Converting to the relay bases simplifies switching around wires to different configurations versus soldered as they were before.
While the panel's open, I will wire up the new switch controller and mount it on the panel.
