12-13-2020, 08:44 PM
Glen:
unless you want to move two trains at a time in the yard, I would run the power from the first bit of track through the turnouts. You might run extra power through switch machine contacts to supplement the contact at the points, if you have contacts on the switch machines.
If you only plan one loco at a time in the yard (no isolating) you could wire the whole yard live as one block -- insulfrog will tolerate that -- and remember not to run through poits set the wrong way. Worst problem with this can be shorting from metal wheels of the rails in the frogs.
unless you want to move two trains at a time in the yard, I would run the power from the first bit of track through the turnouts. You might run extra power through switch machine contacts to supplement the contact at the points, if you have contacts on the switch machines.
If you only plan one loco at a time in the yard (no isolating) you could wire the whole yard live as one block -- insulfrog will tolerate that -- and remember not to run through poits set the wrong way. Worst problem with this can be shorting from metal wheels of the rails in the frogs.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.