A neat way to sense the state of a manually thrown turnout: microswitch spiked down next to the caboose ground throw that when the throw moves, depresses the contact. The microswitch itself connects back to anything that will send a loconet message; alternatively you could light an LED on a panel or set a signal to red. I have a picture from my phone that I will attach to this post to better illustrate. Hat tip to Brad White for showing me this.
The OpenLCB/NMRANet project seems to have made an actual commitment to getting real production gear available within the next 18 to 24 months, with announcements coming at the next national convention. As a person that received a dev kit as part of the project and being very disappointed, this is good news. Trick is going to be the group actually executing. So far, I'd say that both RR-Cirkits and cpNode have beaten them to the punch.
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