fasttracks grade crossing question?

[Milehighxr]

OK sports fans, I have a 6-12062 crossing gate, and if I install it on a layout with the included isolated tracks on either side with the breaks on the same side, and the switch opposite, it works as expected without sound. If the switch is set to the same side as the break I have sound. I wanted a more realistic delay between the gates going down, and the train crossing the road, so I created 2 insulated curves, and one more insulated 5" section. Once these are installed between the isolated track and the gate(all breaks are on same side) the gate does not work. It does not matter which way the switch is set. the gates just come up once on power up, and then when resetting to go, or reverse one gate moves and nothing else happens with the gates. Nothing happens when the train goes over the isolated/insulated sections. If the switch is on the same side as the breaks the sound comes on as do the lights, but the gates don't move. If I put it back to having only the included isolated track on either side it works fine, but the loco is halfway thru the crossing before the gates come all the way down.

I made my insulated track sections by cutting the piece underneath that ties the 2 outer rails together, and cutting the pin off the side that I want the break on, and insuring there is a gap between all the sections on the side I want the break on.

This is beginning to look like rocket surgery...

[ADCX Rob]

Milehighxr

I made my insulated track sections by cutting the piece underneath that ties the 2 outer rails together, and cutting the pin off the side that I want the break on, and insuring there is a gap between all the sections on the side I want the break on.

The Italics outline the problem.  You should not have cut any pins or made gaps.  You want these "trigger" sections to be long continuous rails, only isolated from the other side, not from rails on the same side.  All you have done is effectively made a bunch of little isolated sections with no connections to them whatsoever.