Setting Up Model Railroad Track

There will be a track with an attached cable or a connector for the wires that go to your power pack; this is your "feeder" track. Place the feeder closest to the electrical outlet you will be connecting your power pack to.

Some smaller scale train sets include a piece of track made to look like a road crossing. This is actually your rerailer. Place your rerailer toward one end of a straight area of your track. This will help you rail your locomotive and cars. And every time your trains pass over the rerailer, any wheels that have come off of the rails will be pushed back into proper placement by the rerailer.

Sometimes both the feeder and rerailer are one piece of track. The photo shows A) Bachmann combination feeder-rerailer, B) Kato feeder, and C) Kato rerailer. Track pieces in the photo are N scale. Some sets, particularly larger scale sets, may not have a rerailer.