BPC Connections

Is this an IC Controls BPC or a Lionel version of the BPC?  If I remember correctly (Layout down due to a recent Move), the ICC version had a smaller entrance clamp down than the Lionel version but both were impossible to use with the manual suggested wire size for feeds to the track.  Using a larger gauge (16 or 18 AWG) wire to a terminal block to feed a 12 or 14 AWG wire to go to the track does not work since the "weakest link rule" applies.  The larger gauge wire is carrying the same current as the lower gauge wire  and may result in excessive heat being generated by the 16 or 18 AWG wire depending on your electrrical load.  Many discussions have transpired on this forum as to the wire gauge used to transfer voltage to the track.  You may want to refer to these discussions to determine the gauge of wire actually needed in your circumstance.  Hope this answers your question.

They will work with 14 ga solid, 14 ga stranded is a slightly large diameter. Black wires right side termination. 

Another approach is to remove a few strands from the stranded 14 ga wire terminal end. Make the wire end slightly smaller.

Thanks guys.  I'll try the solid. I was hoping - eternal optimist here - that some other solution would have reared itself by now.

Ralph