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Kato's Number 6 takes everything you can run on it. It is selectable between power routing and all live by choosing which two prongs to put the power wire. It is frightfully expensive but Rapido passenger cars and the Kato Business car glides through them without any trouble.I throw them with a Digitrax DS 64 which come from the factory set up for bi-polar switch machines. The DS64 also has a common rail for three wire switch machines but I dont use them.My selection of Kato is simplicity, self contained in one unit, strong roadbed and huge capacity for large engines like the Duplex. Tiny engines can stop on the frog and re-start off without stalling.When it comes time to move them around until a pernament home can be found, that is not a problem.They are pricey. I usually work around that by buying a few units every so often until the entire switch tree is complete.Another downside is the instructions are very heavy in Japanese. But it is helped by idiot-proof imagery that illustrates pretty well what can be done.I think MR recently did the Blackriver Junction layout with Kato.
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