Thanks for all the great tips. Glad my blog could be of some use. I guess it is time to post new pictures and video showing scenery updates.

Thomas Gasior

I really enjoyed your recent signal column.  It was a straight forward overview.  I also have read many of the comments posted in response to your column and many of them mention timers.  I have a situation I want to signal that would use timers.

I am electrically handy but have not found anything I can understand and use that will give me a timer circuit having an interval of around 30 seconds.  I would like to press one push button that would start a sequence of dropping one signal to approach, than in 30 sec. drop a second signal to stop, then in 30 seconds throw a tortoise controlled turnout to the desired route.  

Don