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wfholdefer, Is your crossing all metal? As in, is it just as if it was handlaid? Welcome to the forum. This place is great! I've been researching wiring crossings myself, and I believe it depends on how exactly it's setup in your trackplan. I *believe*, Ideally, it would be run in such a way that one of the tracks is dead while the other is powered. This could be accomplished by "deadening" the track it's on by determinining whether the track is *alive* or not with a switch hooked up to a turnout that allows the train to get onto the crossing. I know, that's not a complete answer, as I'm in the process of figuring it out myself. But with any luck, at least I've offered some food for thought... I believe many of the commercial turnouts with plastic components in them are cleverly designed in such a way that there is plastic in the critical "shorting spots". With handlaid track, things get trickier...
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