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Cable exists fr it, but it's very time consuming to do. if you take a standard set of poles with 4 lines on it, and you run it around your layout. you'd have to run wires from the poles to various buildings (all buildings in a pre-modern city or town). Since you place a pole about every 6" or so, on an average 4x8 oval, that's about 38 poles, with 4 glueing points each, so you'd glue about 152 spots, making sure the cable staying in place while the glue dried, then cleaning it up so that it didn't look glued. and that's just the poles around an oval, now bring in the side turns, the town or industries poles, roadside poles, and you start to see you can spend months just doing telephone and power wiring. Get's even worse if you want to do Cantanary wiring over the tracks. First the posts are pretty expensive, and instead of glueing here, you have to solder and be really sure the entire line is smooth. Combine the two and you have yourself a good year to two year project on your hands. Some models just don't want to spend that much time on details like this, others do, and do it well.
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