How to get started using Turnout control with CAB 2

Here is some reading material for you.

ASC2 Manual

If these Fastrack Switches are the Command Control type Switches, then ASC's are not necessary as they get there commands to switch "out and thru" from the radiated signal from the outside rail which radiates the Commands to the switch.

If the above is not the case then Yes, ASC's are necessary.  And yes, the newer ASC 2's do use a Lionel Data Cable daisy chained to all of the little Legacy Control Boxes so that the Commands can be sent to the "Boxes" from the Command Base.

I did not in my first attempt, answer your direct questions.  Each ASC will accommodate 4 switches.  In your case, you would need two ASC's.  And yes each ASC would need a Lionel Cable to Daisey Chain them together to receive the Commands.  You do not program the remote!  You program the individual ASC's.  There is a switch on the ASC 2's that is moved to the PROG (program) setting.  By reading the suggested manual from the previous author you should get the programming steps.