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Model Railroad Crossing Grades

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L ukey's train set is being improved little by little.  That was the intention when I first built this HO scale train set for him.  Every now and then, we would add something else to it.  About a week ago, we added railroad grade crossing signs. These buckboard crossing sign posts came as a laser-cut kit so there was a lot of work to be done to make them look like grade crossings! We cut out each part, filed and sanded the edges smooth, glued each piece, and painted them in appropriate colors.   We added these newly built buckboard grade crossing signs to the layout even though the actual road grades now need some adapting and attention.  We now have some buckboard crossing signs without a road in a couple of places.  Plus, even where there is a road, the road grade does not meet the track smoothly.  Finishing up these road grades at the crossing will be a project for another day.  Today's project was to assemble, paint and install the buckboard crossing signs... It may be diff