Alex
I am responding against my better judgement as I can barely solve my 
own problems. 
since you are hooking up feeder wires and that is causing the short, 
I suspect that there is a pair of wires on that buss somewhere that 
are possibly crossed. From what I can tell from your description the 
problem is on the upper level ?? If the upper level is a loop that 
feeds back down to the lower level, it may be acting as a reversing 
loop to the lower section and a polarity problem can exist there. I 
doubt that doing any scenery work using non conductive materials is 
causing your problem. Any end of track bumbers installed? One way 
you can track down the problem is using your multi meter. set it on 
ohms on a low scale like RX1 and clip it to the feeder wires you 
removed from the power supply, then isolate sections one at a time 
till the short goes away.
These problems are a real bugger, I spent two evenings on a friends 
layout looking for a short. We found a piece of brass tubing under 
the tracks and ballast used as a conduit for a switch throw wire. 
The tubing has been there for years and just decided to short out 
the two rails it was under. 
Remember now.......  Model railroading is FUN !!!

Good Luck 

Joe Visintine
Bringing the GM&O back to life in "S"





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