The 2017 HIstoric Forest Range Christmas Cherry Train

 

Here (below) is how it looked in 2011 - we've come a long way since then.

Strictly for electronics geeks and modellers - here's how the shuttle works.

 A reversing circuit based on a 555 timer and a DPDT relay was bought on Ebay for a few bucks - it's cheaper than buying the individual components and it must have on board a ROM or some such because (when you eventually understand their instructions) you can program the time required in each direction and that gets saved in a memory. The shuttle has an isolated section at each end so that the train stops at the end. The isolated section is reconnected through a diode so that when the realy changes the direction it becomes live again. The station stop uses one side of the same circuit board. Easy peasy when you know how. 

There are also multiple diodes in the downhill ciruit and just one in the uphill direction - each diode introduces a bias of just over 1v so that stops the train from going too fast downhill compared with uphill.

There are also multiple diodes in the downhill ciruit and just one in the uphill direction - each diode introduces a bias of just over 1v so that stops the train from going too fast downhill compared with uphill.