Reply to "Lock On's vs Soldering - My experience... Listen to the folks who tell you soldering is better"

I soldered a jumper wire on every track joint on my layout except where my center rails needed to be isolated due to my blocks. I soldered a wire on one side of a joint, drilled a hole on each side of the joint, pushed the soldered wire down the first hole and up through the second hole then soldered the wire to the other side of the joint. I soldered my power wires also. I kept the soldering on the back side of rails where possible and after I painted the rails rust brown and added ballast the soldering was almost invisible. It was a lot of work but I've never had a problem with dead spots.