Peco electrofrogs shorting ????

[rrinker]

Feed the rails past the frog with power-routing contacts from your operating mechanism - this should be pretty much the same way your handlaid turnouts work. If you don't operate both sets of points for the crossover from the same control, you'll get a short a split second before the ensuing derailment if one is set to cross over and the other is set to straight through.

This bit from Loy's web site is how I remember Electrofrog turnouts: http://www.loystoys.com/peco/about-electrofrog.html. This is how yours were working, which is why the jumper from stock to closure rail caused a short.


--Randy