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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by HAZMAT9 Forgot to mention in my dilemma, my reversing loop starts off at a #4 switch and loops around into a leg of a wye switch. The wye is used to branch off the mainline and the other the loop. So in using a wye in a reversing loop, can I still use the MRC reversing module (I'm assuming that I just need to insulate the wye branch going to the reversing loop)?[/quote] Both rails in the loop need to be insulated. Remember, whenever a rail turns back to the oposite rail, it needs to be insulated. Click on the words [url="http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp?MerchantID=RET01229&Action=Catalog&Type=Product&ID=82029"]Auto Reverse Module[/url] and see the wire diagram. Follow one rail and you see the rail becomes the opposite rail. Therfore both rails need to be insulated. I'm not sure I understand you correctly about the wye. Does the wye change direction of the train as in wyeTrackage or are you saying you are using a wye turnout, rather than a regular turnout, to route the train down another track? In otherwords, you mean that the wye turnout is inside the loop and one route continues the loop and the other route goes.... where? If the latter is true, and if the wye turnout is past the insulated gaps then no other gaps past the wye turnout is needed. If the wye turnout is before the gaps, then you need to insulate the branch IF it is connected to the main line in any way.
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