Oh really. If I end the reverse loop at that turnout and keep the other extension that would leave me a little over 8 ft. That means I would still have 1 or 2 cars of my passenger train outside the reverse loop. I don’t know what else to do except removing all metal wheels from the last two cars. I wonder if I can somehow get power from the forward cars for the lighting by running small wires across the couplers. I thought about using battery lighting kits, but I don’t want to change batteries once a week.
The problem by going south of the wye is when you will circle the outside oval , you will use one curve leg of the wye then you will have to go on a portion of the reverser unit for no reason , that's why I would leave that section of track not being part of the reverser unit . Also let's say you are going on the outside oval with a train while a loco is pulling some cars on the middle module crossing the gap at the same time , you have many turnouts with incoming tracks on that leg , you might never have 2 trains doing that , but it's a situation you should avoid by planning before . If you don't run Kato passenger cars or other lighted passenger cars picking current from the track it's not a problem . People using the "easy peasy" ( Rapido ) battery powered lighting unit say they love it , the batteries are supposed to last about a year , depending how often you run with the lights on . A wire between cars would solve the problem but will give you less flexibility , you would still have to remove the metal wheels from the last cars .
Thanks Louis for explaining that. I will be running trains around the outside loop and I just didn’t think of the shorting potential in that area.
