11-14-2009, 11:22 PM
THE BEST ADVICE IS TO STAY ORDERLY. do not let your wiring look like mine. keep everything sorted out, and orderly, so that tracking issues is not a problem. my layout wiring looks like a spider web, which is not good.
I wouldn't be to terrified with rail joiners. If you track work is solid, and you use GOOD, brand new joiners, they should be fine. the ones we use at my club and on my layout are long and thin, and we can hardly press them onto the rails. Those joiners have not failed me yet. Soldering the rails together is fine until you have to take something apart, then its a mess.
Not that you should have feeders all over the layout, but my experiences with soldering rail have been ugly. save it for when the layout is more established.
I wouldn't be to terrified with rail joiners. If you track work is solid, and you use GOOD, brand new joiners, they should be fine. the ones we use at my club and on my layout are long and thin, and we can hardly press them onto the rails. Those joiners have not failed me yet. Soldering the rails together is fine until you have to take something apart, then its a mess.
Not that you should have feeders all over the layout, but my experiences with soldering rail have been ugly. save it for when the layout is more established.
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