Thanks everyone!!!  This really helps.  Going to the hobby store today to buy a small transformer.   

Some help please.  I'd like to run my Bachmann EZtrack beginner layout using DCC.  I have a Prodigy Express DCC controller.  I'd like to wire the turnouts 'conventionally' ... i.e., using a button or switch to control them to keep my first layout simple!!! 

The B'mann turnouts (4) have connectors and are supplied with wire for rigging them up.  But.....

How in the hell do you wire this up?  Do I need a separate transformer for the turn outs?   

I've found nothing on the web to say how to do this.   

Thanks in advance!!!