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Hello Trainwreck, EDIT: Skip to my next post, then come back and read this one. First, you will be unable to post pictures to the forums until you have hit a certain minimum number of posts.  My workaround was to create a photobucket account and link the urls in my post, which others have done as well. Second, Pictures of the Auto-Reverser installed and the track plan, the location of your gaps indicated on track plan, and location of all feeders in the associated reversing section and feeders in neighboring track sections will be most helpful in diagnosing your problem.  Dont give up.  This can get frustrating at times, but a little deductive reasoning and detective work will win out in the end. Third, The Bachmann System worked before the wiring changes.  It now does not work, is that correct?  You also stated that the NCE system would not start up until your auto reverser was removed from the circuit, which was temporarily corrected later by swapping the imput wires.  Your NCE system started up and you ran a locomotive though the section, but upon further testing you found that you had a short.  QUESTION: Did the NCE system restart after you moved the loco off of the short? How many feeders in the reversing section? How long is the reversing section? Also a note about auto reversers:  Your gaps must be EXACTLY parallel on both sides of the reverser for it to work.  A friend of mine has a HO scale layout that had that problem, which is corrected by moving the gaps.   Also a little tip, when installing new feeder wires, put a car on the track that has wheelsets painted to match the colors of your feeder wires (ex: RED wheel one side/ WHITE wheel opposite side) when you go to drop the feeders, match the colors.  On my AR-1 I used the following wiring setup: from right to left with the terminal strip down Red-input, black-input, middle screw not used, red-output, black-output.  I hope this helps.
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