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Track Wiring Without Taking One Engine Off The Track
Does anyone want to help Harold with his track wiring question:
“I have multi-trains and I want to park one train on a siding and have that train stay while I start a train from a different siding without having to take one engine off the track. Can someone tell me how could I wire this?”
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Hi Harold,
Very easy. you have to insulate the siding from the rest of the track with insulator track connectors and supply power directly to that track from another source. Atlas has power suppy controlers (on/off switches) for that purpose so you can use the same power source for multiple sideings or sections of track. This way you control the power to each sideing or any other part of the layout you want. This will especially be helpful if you are going to eventually set up a turntable with multiple bays in a round house and sidings there. Each siding or section of track you want to must be insulated and must be separately supplied. This way you can have as many locomotives on the lay out as you have separated supplies. So you can isolate an entire section of the layout and have as many or as little supplies to each section as you want. By the way round house and turn table are a must!!! Hopefully this will help you or you can get a beginners book on wireing this is real helpful even beyond the beginner I always review wireing before to be sure.
Tony P