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This brings up a good point.  My new Kato #6 turnouts appear to have plastic frogs yet still have the option of "power routing" or "non-power routing".  So what this tells me is that power routing may have nothing to do with powering the frogs. Is this true? My Kato #4 turnouts have 'metal' frogs and are power routing by default.  I only have a few of these and best I can tell I will have to use them as is for modification to "non-power routing" requires taking them apart. My understanding is that I will have to use insulated joiners at some point on the #4 turnouts but can use the #6 on the "non-power routing" option with no insulated joiners anywhere for DCC.  Is this correct or do I have it backwards as far as insulators go?
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