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[quote user="selector"]What confounds so many of us is that our trains stutter, stall, stop, or the sound cuts out, or some other indication that power to the decoders is just that much too intermittent...no matter how we wire our rails. I know this isn't such a big deal in DC, but in DCC it's terrible, and it severely detracts from being able to enjoy the experience of playing with our trains. If it were not such a problem, why would we have this 'solution' thread proposing that we eliminate power to the rails entirely? [/quote] I have never had these problems.  I followed best practices in wiring.  For my club layout we have invested in CMX cleaning cars, running 70% isopropyl alcohol on a 1 drip every 10 second cleaning.  The only loss of power occurs when someone derails and/or collides with another train.  This is 99% of the time a user or manufacturing defect vice wiring problems.  I will probably invest in one once my new layout is built.  Also if you never clean your track, but rely on short powered sections to charge your locomotives, your train will pick up dirt on the non-powered section and drag it into the powered section.   So you need to clean track anyway.   (Anecdotal evidence due to some people not cleaning their track on their modules, wheels get dirty, dirt moves around layout on wheels, gets deposited where it wasnt before).
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