Good day, all - I just finished typing up my notes on a new pair of digital timers that I have been experimenting with over the last few weeks.
They are inexpensive (around $10 each) and can perform many timing functions that we may have on our railroads ranging from operating animations for a set time or running a point to point for a few minutes every so often.
The notes are here:

New Timers

Please let me know if you have any questions about them or their use.

thanks!

dave

PS Amtrak now has pretty good WiFi in their trains - I am on the Pennsylvanian just west of The Horseshoe Curve as I type this… great fun!

Thanks for sharing this stuff. Great ideas. I’ll have to bookmark this for after I get the new layout built.
I can’t believe what you get for the price.

Nice Find Dave. Will have to look into those.

DanS