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if you wi***o create Blocks or segregated zones, then you would substitute plastic joiners in place of metal which carries the electricity from one rail to the next rail. Look at a round wall clock. You install a plastic joiner at 12 o'clock and again at 6 o'clock and the rest with metal joiners, two being power metal feeder joiners. Install one power metal joiner at 3 o'clock and a second power metal joiner at 9 o'clock. You now have two blocks, one block between 12 & 6 and a second block between 6 & 12. If you don't want blocks, you don't use the plastic joiners. The blocks-zones allow limited muti engine operation on the same track. You must connect the power metal feeders to an atlas connector(similar to a light switch,on/off) and than to your power pack. As Train A gaines speed on Train B, you turn off the power between 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock, momentary stopping Train A, thus allowing Train B to catch up, then throw on the connector switch.
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