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Signalogic Systems Inc.

Name: Signalogic Systems Inc.
Address: 15623 112 Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB, T5M2V8, CA
Telephone: +1 587-520-5390
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Signalogic Systems Inc.

-Railway signaling consulting
-Model railroad signalling and control solutions.

08/16/2026

Tomorrow, we will operate CTC over the entire signalled section of the Free-mo layout at the Alberta Free-mo Meet.

04/28/2026

We had such a great time at Calgary's SUPERTRAIN that we forgot to post about our display!

We did go see the Brian Keay's Wolverine Lynx Railroad. This railroad is the largest CTC installation with our system to date and Brian has been a tremendous resource with regards to validating the system and finding root causes of issues over the years. Our Signal Suite software operational mode is quite mature because of customer's like Brian.

04/19/2026

Many of our customers hold operations as one of their primary goals in model railroading. This is no surprise understanding that signaling is much more than animated scenery; it is a core operational component of the actual business. Not all prototype lines have enough traffic on them to warrant a railway signaling system but most lines will still have some crossing warning systems at busy roadways.

The NVRRA is an excellent example from our customer-base who are choosing Signalogic Systems to enhance their goal of more prototypical operations.

04/16/2026

It took some time to get production tweaked for our IR detection sensors. We started off with a low 50% success rate without needing rework, meaning production rates were lower than desired. But now are at almost at 100% meaning we can produce far more for our customers!

The IRSB sensors are attached to a flexible printed circuit (FPC) cable. The IRSB is tiny! We have a customer who has successfully installed them between the rails of their Z scale layout! We recommend using a 1/8" end-mill router bit in your power drill to make a narrow slot for the sensor, negating the need for a large round hole under the track. Adding this slot in finished track and ballast is a minimal disruption to your scene!

The IRSB sensitivity can be adjusted by pressing a pushbutton on the control board. Simply place one of your most difficult rolling stock to detect (eg flat black tank car) over the sensor and then hit the calibrate button. The IR energy level will be adjusted just high enough to capture the car but not your operators hands.

The sensor can be connected to two currently available controller boards:

The IR-PAD for standard detection applications. The IR-PAD controls two IR sensors and provides two independent outputs for each sensor, which is handy for applications such as optical detection at the boundary of two track circuits/block. The Free-mo community employs this clever tactic with signaling.

The XIR board is a Plug n Play component enabling IR crossing operation with our IR crossing kits. Multiple sensors can be used in crossing applications where turnouts are near your crossing (We are model railroaders and we have to cram everything close together!). Any track arrangement is possible with our Plug n Play system. Each XIR manages one sensor and are interconnected via RJ11 ended modular cables and XIR-ROUTER boards which interconnect the sensors based on turnout position. In this way, we have NOT found a track arrangement we can't handle! We will post more on this soon!

02/14/2026

We are all set up for the All Aboard Train Show in Saskatoon, SK. Hope to see you!

01/26/2026

The 2026 Amherst Railroad Hobby Show is a wrap! The massive winter storm that came through the region had a significant impact to the show with many vendors leaving after the show on Saturday. We stuck around on Sunday but definitely found most people stayed away!

We got to Boston last night, where they had 17" of snow! Our flights are still scheduled for this despite most being cancelled.

We got to present our infrared crossing system and MSS products on Saturday with our new puzzle piece demo. We will have a better presentation at our next show!

01/16/2026

Implementing signaling on modular layouts is a challenging prospect that real railroads do not know! The real world always stays in the same order!

The Free-mo community has adopted a clever architecture known as the Modular Signal System (MSS) to attempt to implement signaling. MSS is marvelously elegant in its simplicity. However, this simplicity also describes its functionality. When we talk about prototype signaling, MSS can only simulate simple single direction Automatic Block Signaling which was used in only very specific situations, definitely not single-track bidirectional lines. Even rulebook and timetables that listed a territory as ABS was often referring to Absolute Permissive Block (APB) signaling. Operations was never bothered to distinguish them since the rules were basically the same under both signal system types.

Signalogic Systems was asked to see if a method could be developed to implement a more realistic signaling system over MSS. A decade of trials lead to what we call Active-MSS. An implementation that can pass more realistic signal information over an MSS connection if another Active-MSS node is present at the other end, otherwise standard MSS is implemented. We have successfully implemented prototypical signaling using APB and Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) over Free-mo layouts. It should be noted that any modular/sectional layout can benefit from Active-MSS.

Our DBM signal controller will soon be openly available for modellers, and with it, implementations of Active-MSS!

01/01/2026

One of the things that I love the most is the actual product development phase of bringing products and tools to life!

The board in these pictures will be an Active-MSS tester / Stimulus injector. MSS was developed for Free-mo but can be used with any modular/sectional layout.

This board was assembled for the first time a couple days ago. The first mistake immediately noticed is that the RJ45 connector for the MSS cable was designed facing inward instead of outward! 🤦‍♂️

This MSS Tester will be able to simulate being a normal MSS node or an Active-MSS node (one or two track support). In standard MSS mode, any of the lines will be settable and readable. In Active-MSS mode, the interface will negotiate either a standard MSS connection or an Active-MSS connection if available. When an Active-MSS node is present, the MSS Tester will allow testing of full APB/CTC statuses and crossing approaches for one or two tracks depending on the node settings. Active-MSS is capable of so much more!

This will be our very first battery-powered device and there were a few design issues already found pertaining to power saving features that will be revised.

This morning, firmware design progressed enough to get the LCD display to show four rows of a binary count, thus proving that the microcontroller can interface with the LCD correctly. Next steps will be to develop characters and menus with the navigation switch.

This has been a wish-list item for some of our Active-MSS users out there to allow advanced functional checks of their module prior to installing their installations in a full MSS layout.

This board will be finished with a custom enclosure to protect the board and battery during use.

12/29/2025

The NVRRA has been working steadily over the last few years implementing our DBM based signal system. The club is implementing prototypical CTC and has replaced previous controls including switch controls and block detection with our own equipment due to better integration and reliability.

This December marked an impressive milestone with the club retiring its previous dispatch system with our Signal Suite software which also serves as the configuration tool for the self-contained DBM signal system.

Address

15623 112 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB
T5M2V8

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 3pm
Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+1 587-520-5390

Website

http://www.signalogicsystems.com/

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