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Hi Paul, The point rails have been designed to to sit close enough to eachother so that when the turnout is thrown one way or the other, there is no chance of the opposite side, back of a wheel touching where it shouldn't. One of the reasons for electrically connecting the entire frog / guard-closure-point rails (one piece) is to provide the maximum surface area for driving wheels to contact. It's a tradeoff I realize, but with many Z locos, particularly a single rigid chassis (steam), the more surface area the better. The standard Marklin turnouts are famous for having locs stall at anything but high speeds. To combat this, it's all powered on this unit. So far all tests done have showed no problems with the point rail shorting due to accidental point rail contact. The only real concern I have is that if a loc runs into the turnout against the direction it is thrown, then I could see a short happening. It seems as if this would happen with any live frog turnout though. John http://www.ztrains.com Exploring Basic Z Scale Ideas
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