Thanks. I've made a few terminal "cords" with the spade connectors as you've described which I use as "drops" for my permanent layout. For the Christmas tree circle, though, the jack will make it so easy to disconnect the z1000 and put it away when my kids & I aren't running the trains on it. We've run the LionChief Polar Express on the dc wall plug unit in previous years, but my kids want to run some of my older trains now. I'm concerned the "dangling" wires will get stepped on, pulled, etc. and the "spades" loosen after a few connect/disconnect cycles. Does FasTrack have a jack-fitted terminal track section designed for ac input?
Bill