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If you want to make life easier for yourself, get Insulfrogs. Electrofrogs work a little better for slow steam not stalling on the frogs, but the frogs need to be powered from a remote switch as well as the points, what a HASSLE! As well as the hassle of cutting gaps, insulatiing them and so on. The people who want Electrofrogs don't need advice. If you need advice, you should get Insulfrogs!!Peco Insulfrogs are the simplist. They work right out of the box, no mods needed and you can switch them by hand, no remote switch (either manual or electrical) needed. They ARE power routing so you will have to drop power feeders on the diverging routes unless you WANT dead track for parking and engine. If you go the dead track route, realize the switches aren't the most reliable and sometimes won't route power due to bad contacts at the points. They really SHOULD make them non-power routing. You can make them non-power routing with a couple of jumpers on the bottom. I have had some trouble with shorts at the frog, but it is manageable.If you are inexperienced, just get Insulfrogs and don't worry about a lot of power feeds, you can drop power feeds later where you need them. DC and DCC aren't really any different so far as switches go, except in DCC, dead track doesn't make any sense. I wired up my track and got DC to work, the switched over to DCC. I can swithc back and forth and my DCC system has DC over DCC so I can run my DC engine along with my DCC ones.
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