Hi Crandall,
Thanks for your reply but something might have been lost in the translation (or perhaps I am just showing the effects of anaesthetic last week - vascular surgery)
If a train was parked in a passing loop with both turnouts against it, would that train still be powered? If it was in a dead end siding, would it be dead if the turnout is against it? I seem to recall building a kids layout with a club about 15 years ago with the steel track/black base EZ track and I thought that the sidings did not isolate. We built it with a passing siding and two sidings off.
This is more for research to help some beginners than anything else,
Thanks again for the reply and my apologies if I was not clear enough,
Regards from Australia
Trevor
My wife and MIL gave me a Bachmann On30 train set with Bachmann EZ-Track for Christmas about 21 years ago. It came with the curved diverging path 18" radius turnouts and curve-generating lengths for an oval. I have used both the #5 conventional EZ-Track and the #4 curved turnouts, and have had nothing in place to isolate a siding accessed by one of these at their ends. No phase or polarity conflicts. So, I suspect that the EZ-Track variety route power.
Although I have an oval of Bachmann EZ track for my Xmas On30 train, I do not have a turnout so could someone please confirm that EZ track turnouts are NOT isolating like Peco turnouts and both paths beyond the frogs are live for say a dead end siding?
Is it the same for Snap track turnouts?
I have only used Peco and SHinohara turnouts on my layouts. Peco are the "standard" here in Australia,
TIA