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<p>Make a loop and all need to mirrior each half of that loop to match.</p><p>Now if you branched from this loop into a mine... there is no worry about getting it all to fit.</p><p>The biggest challenge for me was creating a wye. The result was a monstor and it will be incorperated at a later day. I was thinking of Andy's Draco layout article in MR from years ago (Anyone still have the month and year of that issue?) and I was able to replicate that wye with the kato.</p><p>The number 4's I use are electric but they are power routing. At this time I simply insulate the frog RAILS... the inner two rails to each route. Then I set up feeder tracks on all three routes around the turnout and voila! live power for DCC.</p><p>The problem then becomes one of placing the insulating joiners far enough from the FROG itself so that if there is going to be a problem the loco can have about a foot to stop.</p><p>I may end up buying nothing but number 6's because those 86 foot high cube boxcars bring me to tears when they attempt to cross a 4. I may go either way and restrict the big stuff to the big switches to the industry that serves them.</p><p>Power Distribution Blocks is the key to the entire thing and makes it all work electrically.</p><p>Remember to mark the underside of your 9 inch feeder track wire plate with which side is blue wire and white wire. You will need to remember to keep all the rails in phase in DCC.</p>
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