DCS Wiring and Atlas Switches

You jumper the rails on the switch  where ever needed with short pieces of wire.  Don't think dcs but think of  getting the  engine through the switch without stalling. Once that's completed, back to dcs  and one set of feeders per block, the insulated center rail now comes into play depending  where you want your blocks.  

   train traveling from left to right          

                                   ____B________

Example.....___A____/Sw _____C_________

A.. could be one block.

B.... another

and C.. another with center rail  insulating  pins separating the diverging route)b) and the straight through route(c)

No insulating pin at the switch point end.

Or you could possibly make it all one block with no center rail insulating pins... depends on your layout

The main thing is to get the engine over the switch without stalling whether running dcs or conventional.

Dick,

   No offense, with 40 Atlas Switches you must be a masochist, as Greg has pointed out its not just the DCS, its getting the switches to function properly all the time so

your trains will run thru them on a slow speed repetative basis, that will be your problem, the DCS when wired correctly will not be your problem.  May God help you.  Let me know the visiting hours so we can come visits you, in what ever institution you choose.

PCRR/Dave

For a new layout, why in the world would you select Atlas switches?  I'd ditch those and use Ross switches, you'll thank me in the morning.