what is a feeder track?

[prodigy2k7]

what is a feeder track?

 

[Glen Haasdyk]

I think you might mean a feeder wire, thats when you have a single return wire running under your layout and the feeder wires attach it to your track. you use less wire doing it that way

 

[prodigy2k7]

so it gives power so your track right?

 

[60103]

Yes. Usually we use a short piece of thin wire so that it doesn't show so much. The resistance in a short wire isn't bad and there should normally be a few in the adjoining track sections so that there's some parallelism.
There's a much heavier wire under the layout going to the power pack or the control panel.