Having spent many hours trying to set up my track for my new model railway, I am becoming increasing frustrated and am starting to pull my what little hair I have left out of my head and would really value some help.
I have laid the baseboard and intend to model my track with a shunting yard and a run-around track around the shed. However, I have encountered no end of problems with getting my points to work without shorting. Due to the fairly compact space, I only intend to use 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 steam locos on DCC. I have an NCE PowerCab which I found to be faulty and was repaired, so that was the first hurdle I overcame.
The points are mostly SEEP motors with a built-in switch and the odd Peco solenoid motor with PL10 accessory switch attached. I have been able to wire up switches for my points and I have a Cobalt CDU2 to juice up the point motors, none of which has proved problematic. The track is a combination of Hornby and Peco and the points themselves are mostly Peco Streamline Electrofrog small left and right turnouts which I have cut the small wire underneath and I've bound the stock and closure rails with additional wires to make them electrically live. So I appear to have done everything I think I should have done.
However the issues arise when I try to run my 0-6-0 loco, particularly where I have face-to-face points: there are certain places, namely A and B in the diagram attached where I have a short when the loco runs over the point. Currently point A shorts when the loco passes going East to West, but is ok going down to the next track. Similarly point B shorts as well. I'm not sure that I shouldn't have a double IRJ at point C with additional dropper wires to power the track in between points B and C. ??
Finally, although I have adapted my Peco streamline point, I have an older Peco Electrofog point which only has pivoted switching rails and I'm not sure where (or if) I need an additional break in the rails, or if I can adapt this point in the same way above the switching rails as the other points - or would I be better just to buy new points?
I know I have a lot of questions here, but if anyone could help I would be most grateful as this hobby is supposed to be enjoyable and at the moment it is proving anything but! I know I may have missed something really obvious, but I am a beginner, so be gentle with me...
Thank you in anticipation of your help.