In other words what is that thing doing on your layout? What do you say it's for? Is it suppose to be a crossing and therefore should always have a road going up to it? What color/s do you paint it?
I usually paint them a brownish black so they look like creosote timber. I make my own crossings for concrete out of plaster, which are then painted gray.
I don't say that it is anything. If I have one at all, I hide it inside a tunnel to function only as a rerailer. For power connections, I prefer soldering feeders to the rails so they don't show.I
I'm using one for the power connection to my "semi-permanent" layout, but, like Jim, I have it hidden in a tunnel.
I remember reading that installing a rerailer inside a tunnel is a recommended proceedure to prevent derailing inside tunnels. Considering how large the plug is on the terminal rerailer , that should have been designed with the receptacle to be completely beneath the track with just two smaller wire holes , one on each side of the ballast section to allow for wire exit . The only good thing about the crossing is that it tells you where the terminals may be .
I have 10 rerailer sections on my layout. They are not for correcting derails so much as being able to manually "place" cars in the ladder yard and on the main tracks.
I guess you could call my entire layout a "fiddle track", as I frequently replace locomotives and cars to make up different trains.