Harlan
I dont think that you quite understand what I mean..
Im going to use a pushbutton switch such as this..
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062539 ..
And a toggle switch such as this..
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102475 ..
What
YOU will need to do (the Atlas turnouts are different) is wire the toggle switch as Mr Fifer has suggested in his turorial.. When you wire the switch this way, it allows you to reverse the polarity of the output voltage when you toggle the switch.
To make it easier for me to explain all of this to you, I suggest that you use RED and BLACK for the wires that go to the centre terminals of the switch, and this will be the DC input from the 12 volt DC power supply (or in your case, the DC output of the Kato AC to DC converter, which is otherwise known as a rectifier).. Just to make things easy, say that the colours of the two wires coming out of your toggle switch are blue and white..
Now get two LED's, (different colours if you like, maybe red and green) and solder a 1K ohm (1000 ohms) 1/2 watt current limiting resistor in series with cathode lead on the LED.. (The cathode is the shorter of the 2 legs of the LED)..
LED's are like all other diodes, they only conduct electricity in one direction, so we can use this to our advantage.. Connect the Anode of one LED (Red LED) to the white wire, and the resistor (cathode) of the LED to the blue wire.. Now connect the second LED (Green LED) the other way around, so connect the anode to the blue wire, and the resistor (cathode) to the white..
Now if you connect the Red and Black wires to your 12V DC supply, the red LED should be lit (illuminated) on one position of the toggle switch, and the green LED should be lit in the other position of the toggle switch...
Now lets connect it to the Kato Turnout..
Because the Kato turnouts only need a short "pulse" of electricity to operate, and the output from our toggle switch is a constant output, we need to install a normally open push button switch in between (in series) the output of the toggle switch, and the input of the Kato turnout, otherwise you will burnout the Kato turnout..
To do this, what you need to do is connect the white wire from the toggle switch to one wire from the Kato turnout.. Then you need to connect the blue wire from the toggle switch to one terminal of the push button switch.. Then connect the second wire from the Kato turnout to the second (other unused) terminal of the push button..
To make it all work, turn on your DC power supply, and one LED should be lit (say its the red LED). Now press and release the pushbutton switch (for less than one second) to synchronise the turnout with the toggle switch position.. (note the turnout may not move, as it may already be in the correct position).. Now switch the toggle switch to the other position, and the red LED should go out, and the green LED should be lit.. Now press and release (1 second) the pushbutton switch, and the turnout should "switch" position to the other track..
Hopefully you can understand all of that..
As I said previously, the only drama with this circuit is that if you happen to move the toggle switch, and NOT press the pushbutton, the indication LED will show a different track to what the turnout really is on..