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I have never subscribed to having several connections to my railway, in my opinion in the tropics and most situations its a waste of time. No matter what cable you use it will never be as good a conductor as the rails themselves, irrespective. Using track clips are also a waste of time; the special grease is just another way of getting you to spend more money. I use our local club rail which we get in kit form for, you bend the rail to suit yourself and put the sleepers (ties) on youself, it works out for me about A$40.00 (multiply by 0.75 for US$) for 3.69 M (12') and that is the lengths they come in. This rail has a similar metalic makeup to Aristo but has a cross section more similar to LGB. I solder every joint with a small jewellers blowtorch, with discreet sections that can be easily handled by my wife and self. These section are joined together with Hillman Clamps which are just great, you can even get ones that handle expansion problems if you have worries in that direction. I have no trouble with bad joints at all, even though we have been hit by a monsoonal depression just recently. I have done some tests and I cannot detect any serious voltage drop up to 40 M of track. Incidentally I use the LGB MTS which reticulates power at about 20 V AC and this is the way to go. The higher voltage reduces your I 2 R (eye squared R) losses and the AC ensures a much reduced effect of higher restance spots and when you are passing DC through dissimilar metals etc you will have trouble with electrolysis and this is reduced and/or eliminated using AC. My railway is called the Kawana Island Tropical Railway and it is located on the Sunshine Coast which of course is on the Coral Sea only a few hours drive from the the Tropic of Capricorn. Kawana Island is located in the Mooloolah River. I have about 65M of track and another 70 M going down soon. Incidentally would Bob Swiston contact me I think we may have a similar weather situation, I would contact, him but I don't know how, my e mail address is iandor@bigpond.com Regards Ian J Brown.
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