When I was first getting train cars from my hobby dealer, I thought I had a great set of cars picked out. However the sales guy started telling me, those two cars are from different era's; those cars are from different parts of the country and would not have run together, etc/

Is there a book that tells which train cars ran, and where they ran?  I want to make sure I don't put multiple era's of cars in by mistake.

Thanks for the help

Brian

I recently got the train kit set "Your First Railroad Track Pack"

Inside the instruction book was very vague. However there a number of small switches that I do not understand their function, or how to wire them up.

These switches have 2 prongs at each end and 3 prongs to one side, with a slide switch on top.

If someone could tell me what these do and if possible tell me how to wire them up, that would be fanstastic.

Thanks
Brian