Well, I am in the process of laying out my track, and I have a question about the DCC on board turnouts.  There is a black wire that is not connected to anything, and the print on the turnout says to connect it to power the frog.  I don't know yet if it will be NEEDED, but I may hook them up anyway to avoid problems later.  The problem is, it doesnt say where to connect the black wire.  Where? and should I bother?  Thanks in advance.  This group is the best!

I haven't seen this discussed before.  With the hand-held cab controller attached to the command station, it seems too easy to drag the command station off of the bench.  What is a good way to attach the base unit so it won't move around?

I am building a DCC layout.  I do have a couple of older DC locos.  While I know I do not want to run them on the layout with DCC power (i am using a Prodigy Advance 2) I don't know about this:  Can I just unplug the command center and plug in a DC power pack and run the layout that way occasionally?  I will have two auto reversers in the buss--will DC do any damage to them?

I am setting up an oval with 4 switches that create a figure 8 in the middle of the oval.  All four switches through:  route is the oval, all four divergent:  route is the figure 8.  This is a DCC layout, and I know I have to isolate the divergent route from all four switches--leaving the cross in the center isolated.  Can I wire this as a single reverse loop with one auto reverser, or do I need to seperate it into two separate reverse loops with a reverser on each one?  I hope this makes sense--I am new to this...  Thanks for your help.

I am considering EZ track for my new layout, and have never used it before.  From reading elsewhere on the net it seems like the hardcore modellers don't like it, especially the turnouts.  I like the idea of #5 and #6 turnouts with DCC decoders already built-in.  My question is this:  Is this track reliable, including the turnouts?  Do you have trouble with trains derailing on the turnouts?  Also, can two turnouts be switched via the same address or is each one separate?  I have heard you are limited to 8.  True?  Thanks for the time, and for objective feedback from users of the product.