Incorporating Fastrack switches in blocks

[selector]

Your post is misplaced here.  This forum is for enthusiasts of classic trains, not classic toy trains.  Next door, in Classic Toy Trains, you will find the help you need.

Good luck.  Sounds like an ambitious project.  I have built a double slip, six #8's, and two free-hand oddballs using the Fast Tracks jigs on my HO layout.  Am I ever thankful to have learned how to make a turnout.

[dillkev]

I am attempting to put several blocks into a layout.  Each block will have two turnouts linking it to an adjacent block.  I am using auxiliary power for the switches (on a CW-80) and a ZW for the track.  I have the switches wired into a BUS and the track blocks wired using SPST switches.  There is no common wiring between the turnouts and track wiring.  Now it gets complicated and painful:  I have cut all three rails of the turnout between the block sections to isolate the track.  However, I have full voltage feeding back through the switch into other track blocks through the switch BUS (this occurs whether there is a transformer attached to the BUS or the wires are disconnected) .  I have determined this by isolating a single piece of powered track (ie. no other track attached in any way) and find no voltage going to other track.  If I add a switch that is wired into the BUS, any block that has a switch gets power. 

Inside the Fastrack powered switch, the Aux Ground for separate power is wired in common with the center rail of the "through" track (yellow wire).  After removing the ground wire from the through rail, there is no power into other blocks.  HOWEVER, this seems to prevent automatic throwing of the "nonderailing" feature of the turnout.  I have exhausted my brain cells on this and need some insight (other than using different track- lesson painfully learned).  I have lots of it around.

Kevin