Feeders and track sections

Model Railroader Electronics and DCC
1

The son of a friend of mine is starting his first layout and asked me a question that I just don’t know the answer to. He plans to run feeders about every 4 feet and asked if the sections of track need, or should be, isolated from each other. His track plan is point-to-point and does not show any wyes or reversing loops. He will be using NCE DCC.

I feel somewhat silly for not knowing so thanks for suggestions.

Dale

2

if he has need of seperate block sections, for signalling or unit detection, etc. then yes …

otherwise no

3

Between feeders from the same bus? No. If there are additional bus runs (a second booster, circuit breakers, etc), then both rails need to be gapped between sections fed from one bus and sections fed from the second bus.

–Randy