03-17-2014
I ordered the MTH crossing gates with sound from LINCOLN, NE today for $59.99; which is a good price but bad because these are nowhere on the priority list. I thought that we had gotten a great deal on the two signals we purchased not realizing I’d have to but another electronic piece to make the gates work. A piece by itself, with no sound, ranges from $20 to $30. After this discovery I thought to myself why am I going to buy just a circuit board to make the lights flash when for $30 more than that, $60.00 total, I can get: a sound system, a circuit board and two more crossing gates? This became a no brainer less laying out $70 for stuff I don’t need, but farther down the road are nice details.
Secondly, because we now will have four crossing bucks, I stretched the Cataract road out farther than originally planned to have it cross the tracks on the far end town. I think the nice long curve looks nice.
