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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by zachar jsalemi sorry for askin a lot of questions! So, do you add one or two wires to the power bus, and then add one wire to the track you want to cut power to? I'm just wondering! [/quote] No problem, but I'm not sure what you're asking? My power bus is 12 gauge wire, with short 18 gauge 'drops' that the 20 gauge feeder wires come off of. For the stall/roundhouse tracks, there's one of those 18 gauge drops (black wire side) under the tracks, with 3 (eventually 5) 20g feeds up to the stall tracks. Near the edge of the layout is another 18g feeder from the red wire side of the bus. A 20g drop from this goes to the input side of the first SPST switch, and then a 20g jumper from that goes to the input side of the second SPST switch, and so on. 20g feeder wires run from the output side of each SPST to its respective stall track, which completes the power circuit to the track. The roundhouse is only about a foot in from the edge, so the wire runs are relatively short. Does this help make it clearer?
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