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I have a 4x7.5' temporary layout on 2" foam.  I am making two sidings isolated so that the kid's Lion Chief locomotives will stop beeping at them or running incessantly.  I am struggling to find suitable switches to control these.  I don't want to build an enclosure or even attach them to anything.  I have the buttons from Lionel to operate the uncoupling tracks hanging by a short wire from a hole in the edge of the foam and they work great for intermittent power.  I want something like these in on/off - even better with an indicator light.  I am open to other (better?) ideas as well.  Thanks for your help.

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The Lionel switches are clearly better, but also more expensive by an order of magnitude.

The All Electronics switches, while clearly intended to be mounted in a box, appear in the picture to feature a small plastic enclosure as well.  The connections can be made safely under a shrink tube at the end of the little pigtail.  There are no exposed metal tabs like most switches have.

As a side note, while I was working on this, I realized that I have some pieces of Fastrack from a starter set (the 10" power plug track and a 10" plug and play accessory track) with lights built into them that I could use to indicate whether a particular section of track was powered up.  Extremely convenient alternative use for these parts!

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