Marty Fitzhenry posted:MTH firmly states to wire both of your outside rails together. On smaller layouts you may get away with not doing so. On larger layouts it is very important. To use sections to wire a signal or anything else is old school.
We made sure both outside rails of our Gargraves tracked layout were connected to provide a continuous common everywhere and it has saved us from a lot of problems, or so it seems ... and the signal grounding sink wire next to the elevated tracks ending in the house ground plug. No signal problems, unless we start messing around with "trick devices" to enhance signals, avoid dead ends, etc.
Keeping it vanilla keeps it working.
That is also why we froze the DCS at 4.3 ... it works without problems, don't have Blueteeth, etc., so that's where it stays ... 4.3.
