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Wiring The Track
Aidan has a question for experienced model railroaders and asks:
“I am starting to lay tracking and wire the layout. It’s not DCC, it is common return. The wiring plans say that the power should be fed at the toe of the points. I have one point directly behind another so I’m unsure of where it should be fed from. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.”
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I will assume that you are not familular as to what the toe of a point is. Thw toe is the part of the point which is common bfore the rails diverge. If you will require power at the second poin in line to operate more trains on the tracks fed by this then you will require wireing to both sets of toes, otherwise wireing to the first set of points is all that is neccessary. To future proff your layout and give the best power supplies to all track I would advise supplying power to the toe of each set of points.