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Diamond wiring

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Alan:
Visualize you track schematic with one rail black and the other red. Any place a black rail nears a red rail will require polarity management - auto reverser, switch machine control, signal control, IR detection, or simply dead track. If you have keep-alives in your equipment then dead track is a viable zero cost option otherwise, some polarity switching device will be required.

drisdon:
Alan
That was very helpful!  Thanks for explaining it so well, no I know what I need to do and which ones will get gapped and attended to. 

Dan

Ken Z:
I have a Wye and two crossings, one over double track.  I use Frog Juicers, I am not skilled with wiring, this is the most simple solution I found and it works.  That is what I needed.

Ken Zieska

Dean:
I use an auto reverser on the wye on my layout. The switches all have powered frogs from the switch points.

drisdon:
I wanted to close the loop on this, the Walthers crossings are DCC friendly and no special wiring is required.  A reverser was not needed for the junction, just the normal type of gaps around the turnouts. 

Thanks for all your responses.

Dan

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