Best electrical text

If you can find them Greenberg's Wiring Your Lionel Layout vol 1-3 by Peter Riddle. Vol 1 is basics, vol2 intermediate with automatic train control, rewiring accessories and uncouple/unload for better functioning etc. Vol 3 goes into some electronics and is somewhat dated but also includes a section on catenary and operating pantographs.

I run conventional and have found them a great reference resource.

Scotie

Here is a recent one one I liked. Thought it was well written and easy to understand and easy to read. Some of these books are really a hard read, at least for me anyway.

Wiring Your Toy Train Layout by Peter Riddle

The Greenberg series posted by Scotie above sounds interesting as well and by same author. I might look into that one myself. Although I have command control only I enjoy all aspects of wiring for train operations. Conventional can be very interesting as well.

Hi - GG-1fan • I use a Craftsman Multi Meter, Check volts, ohms and electrical continuity. This is what works for my layout. 

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What are you trying to accomplish? Two separate loops of track running two trains; one loop running two trains?  Really, the quality of the advice received starts with the quality of the question.

Actually, at this juncture I am not looking for specific advice regarding my vision of my layout--I really don't know what that is anyway.  All I am looking for is the best overall wiring text to provide me with some ideas as well as ways to implement those ideas. Once I see what possibilities are out there, then I can be more specific in what I want to accomplish.  What I do know, however, is that I want to confine my interest in conventional wiring possibilities rather than buying a text that will deal with digital systems.

Did you check under this topic at the top of this Forum?

ELECTRICAL REFERENCE MATERIALS & MANUALS

Here's a copy of my dad's booklet that is posted there.

1954 issue How to Operate Lionel Trains and Accessories