I tend to be of the school that solders power feeders to every track segment. Given this, what I'm curious what purpose is served by soldering rail joiners?

I understand that their are situations in curves where flex track ends may not want to follow the curve and soldering helps the track conform. That makes sense to me. But what other rationale would their be for soldering the joiners?

Thanks!

How do you guys hold cars or trains on a grade? I did check the archives and saw a couple of ideas using  wire and paint brush bristles. So what has worked for you? I have a industrail siding that will need something to hold the cars so they don't roll out to the mainline and  I have to hold a train on a grade while I do some switching. I don't want to loose that train as it will roll down the helix.  Brian

I am concidering using Peco electrofrog turnouts in my staging yards.

Curved code 75 in an open staging yard and medium code 100 in a more or less hidden staging. Elswhere I am using different brands of code 70 and code 83 turnouts and track.

I want to hear about your experience with said turnouts. Not so much regarding the electricity issues, as I am well aware of that I have do tune them up to make them function well with DCC.

I want to hear about how these Peco turnouts function with US rolling stock.

I found this in a bunch of old track from an estate sale.  It is Bachmann but I don;t know what exactly this is supposed to be for with the small wheel and what look like signals perhaps?

Thanks,

-Ed