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I solder a short section of bare 22 ga solid wire between the closure rails and stock rails on the back of the turnout (I do this for both types of Peco turnout). This wire will be hidden by ballast so the guage of the wire is not a big concern, I used scraps of feeder wire I had left over from a 100' roll.  I remove the factory jumper wires, if so equipped and/or cut gaps with rotor tool. Install turnout.  3 wires will now power all parts of the turnout, and there is less than a 1/4" of unpowered track, 3/4"-1" if I skip powering the frog. To answer your question: 26ga should be fine.  You will probably get contact between the points and the stock rails anyway, this step is just an insurance policy because using points to feed power in DCC is not a recommended practice, and really, really annoying when someone does it on a club staging yard (8 tracks and every turnout has to have perfect contact otherwise you lose power and have to either drag your train in by hand or you get hit by another train because someone isnt paying attention and you are crossing the opposite direction main line; so glad those modules are gone).  Edit: sorry about the rant
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