How do I increase the power on my layout

Well, considering you're all conventional, forget about the bricks, they're constant voltage output.  Adding power is likely to be either upping the power of what you have with larger transformers or adding more transformers.

If you are losing power further away, you need to increase the size of the wire feeding those areas.

@John H posted:

If you are losing power further away, you need to increase the size of the wire feeding those areas.

Bingo. You need larger wires feeding the distant points, or more power drops feeding the distant locations. If the transformers you have can run your trains near the control panel properly, and if they don't overheat excessively after running for 20 minutes or so, you likely don't need more power. Just my nickels worth.

Rod

Are you running each loop and/or power district with busses and wires to the center rail every 5 or so track sections, or is each power district fed at a single point (lockon or directly soldered)?  Seems like over a thousand watts should be plenty, but could struggle to feed power if hooked up at only one point per loop/district.  

I would think adding a power drop where you notice a slowdown, mountain & freight areas, would help tremendously.  

Tom

@Doug Caron posted:

...I need more power on the freight areas and Mountain areas as it travels farther away from the control panel...

This is the classic symptom of voltage loss at the track due to:

• Track power feeder wires too small (should use 14 gauge for long runs)
• Not enough track power feed wires
• Dirty connections between track sections
• All of the above

You don't need more power, you just need to make some changes so you can efficiently use all the power you have available.

Thanks everyone.  I will add more drops in the freight yard..  I already run 14 gauge out to the mountains, but I now see where the freight yard has too many disconnects from board to board and they are not 14 gauge.