I just got around to installing my crossing signals. I purchased everything I needed at the Springfield MA. show from Azatrax. Excellent product and really good instructions. I placed the sensors at about a 45 degree angle on either side of the center rail.
They really aren’t noticeable viewing the layout and they work very well. I used 5 of them. What I like. It’s a single track and can be entered from either direction. You want it to start the lights well before the train gets there and stop flashing just after the train crosses the roadway. Somehow it seems to figure out when the roadway is clear and the train has passed. Even though the train is still covering up one of the sensors.
The insulated rail works very reliably. But on a single track that you run in both directions. If you start the sequence from 4 feet away. You need to travel the same distance away to get them to shut down.
