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Kevin, do you plan on only having one engine on your layout at a time in the yard area? If that is all you will have then you can power your yard all at the same time, but what is planned for the future?? Also that is a lot of track to run off of one feeder wire, you may loose a little power at the far end on an outside track, especially if a switch partway through your ladder is not making a very good contact. My sugesstion would be to isolate the other tracks, in the event you have one train sitting in the yard, or a yard engine, and you want to run another through it or into the yard. This can be done in two ways, one way is to block wire each of the four tracks with on off switches, the other way is is to use a rotary switch- you rotate the switch to whichever track you require powered. With either of the above ways it is also much easier to locate a short or power loss if one develops. I do not have DCC as yet but in speaking with others who have it there is one track that is required for a "program track" and one of your yard tracks could be used for this. Just a something to ponder. Ron..
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