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If you are like I was about three months ago, I was a "soldering" virgin - never really soldered before. A short cut you can try is soldering feeders to the bottom of wire joiners. But my recommendation is to use insulated joiners every where and make each piece of track its own block (its own little layout). This may sound like a lot of work, but if you solder every three feet you are almost doing that anyway. Why should you create so many blocks? Well eventually if you signal or use a computer to run trains, even if just out of staging you won't regret small blocks (remember flex track is three feet long - so feeders to each flex track; then feeders to each turnout). Also when I do have an electrical problem, it will be isolated to the one block it is occurring in - and this I really like - instead of playing detective and trying to find the short "somewhere" on the layout. In hooking up feeders to the bus wire, consider using "suitcase connectors." You won't find one that hooks up 22 gauge wire to 14 gauge wire, but my buddy discovered a technique where he hooked up two 22 guage feeder wires to one suit case connector, hooked up to 14 gauge. This short cut will save you lots of time. As a friend of mine likes to say - "You can't be too thin, too rich, or have too much wiring."
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