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[quote user="jfb"]I marked my wires and they are individual but the lay overlapping each other hence possible shorting inside the wire looms ,will this cause problems or not please note here from experience again.[/quote] You should be using wiring with insulation on it.  With my DCC you twist the pair of wires together.  Not sure what you mean by "wire looms". Whatever those are I dont use them.  Suitcase connectors are workable in a fixed model railroad that doesnt get moved around alot.  I used them for the track feeders because I did not feel like pushing pieces of shrink tubing down the entire bus and I couldnt find cold shrinkwrap in my area.  I have not had problems with suitcase connectors yet, however my electrical engineer girlfriend thinks we should not use them (she's not doing the wiring so Im using them).  If you are adding wire extensions I would solder them do not use suitcase connectors for this purpose.  Also what do you mean by solidly crimped?  If in a terminal block, wire nut or other similar device yes.  Twisted together and pinched with vice grip, no dont do that. As for holding down track, I use Liqiud Nails LP-903, cork and T-pins.  Once the liquid nails is dry I pull the T-pins out.
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