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@Dave_C posted:

The double crossover is not to bad to do. You may need a relay to change the polarity of the 4 isolated rails around the diamond. Other than that. Pretty straight forward from what I remember. It’s a lot easier to solder all your wires at the workbench. I attached a wire to every isolated rail. Not the switch points. You may not need all of them. But they are there just in case. The turnouts I just used 18 gauge wire. The newer locos with multiple pickup rollers and steamers featuring axle wipers work really well at finding a rail somewhere with power.
If you have Ross ready switches. They should have jumper bars across the rails. Not sure about feeder wires and I’m guessing switch motors already installed.

Thanks Dave for the encouragement. I did some continuity checks on my track and low and behold the two outside rails are tied together via the Ross double cross over. So my loss of power to the Lionel engines won't be resolved by connecting the outside rails. That may need to be done, however there are other issues I need to resolve first. Number one is to reduce the resistance from track to track. Not sure on the best course of action with Gargraves track. Guessing the pins need to have a solid contact to the rail for the length of the pin. I have a lot of used track which I am debating if I should bite the bullet and replace with new track. Or is there a pair of pliers designed to compress the rail so the pin fits tight along its entire length. The other option is to solder rail joiners to each track which hinders revising the track layout. I'll search around the forum for helpful info that others have relayed fixing similar issues.

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