I've read several posts about the problems with brass track, and I agree with all the comments. I am in the process of replacing all my brass turnouts, straight, curved and flex track.

Several posts suggested that it would be OK to use brass track in spurs/industrial dead ends where an engine would most likely not be touching the brass track. That sounds good, but my question is, would those brass track dead-end sections cause a degradation in the overall electrical current in the Nickle-Silver sections leading up to the brass track?

Thanks......

Adding an update to my progress.

     Got the majority of my roadbed down. All of my mainline, sidings, staging, and some spurs. 

     I started by sanding all of the shine off the foam and putting a light coat of brown interior paint on it. I hate the pink color and it helps me later on when I begin to carve the terrain. (The pink shows through so I know exactly where I am carving.)

I downloaded the templates of the ladder system and printed them out.  I verified that the template lengths were correct.  When I placed the templates on the layout, I get track spacing of 1 &13/16ths not the recommended spacing.

For those who have installed the system, what have I missed or done wrong?

Thanks...Ken

Okay, I have an intermittent problem with engines (H-10's) stalling at some (but not all) insulfrog switches on my layout - especially at low speeds. Is there a way to correct this? I understand that frog juicers do not work on insulfrog Code 83 switches.

All engines have been speed set up correctly and "crawl" over most of the layout. On some switches, the engine stops and then "reconnects" with the dcc program and start again. Jerky, but the momentary stop drives me crazy. On some points, a slight nudge to the engine gets it going again.