Thank you for the responses. I was going to use phone wire for the switch drop to the bus. Since you mentioned small amount of electric and one switch at a time I guess bus line can be same gauge. The additional lighting would be a few track side buildings.
The reason for seperate wiring comes from Lionel wiring guide explaining switches work best and longer if 14 volts is supplied. Lionel also points out that the bulbs won't overheat at 14 volts. I know nothing about amp draw, wire gauge, ect. I appreciate your help very much.
Bob
I believe the wiring guide may be referring to the older tubular switches. The manual for the fastrack switches recommends 5-18v, no more than 19v. Fastrack switches use LED's as opposed to traditional light bulbs so overheating and burnout is not really much of an issue. I'm not trying to tell you what to do Bob, howver it would be silly for Lionel to design command control switches to eliminate the extra wires from the controller only to have the operator have to add wires for power.http://www.lionel.com/media/se...0GenericCCswitch.pdf
