On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 11:33 AM, Jim Betz wrote:
... Oh, yes - every physical piece of rail has a soldered track feeder ...
As someone who has worked on a working layout that was built years ago, this is critical. Your rail joiners will eventually fail and will fail faster if you paint the track. (Which really helps the looks of your layout!)
We lost about 15 feet of a busy mainline one night because a rail joiner failed. It turned over 100 feet of track into "local traffic only" until it was fixed.
Puckdropper
