Hello everyone,
I'm looking to get some answers on what I should use to power my Roundhouse Area. Currently my layout is a L-Shape 18x8 and 24x8. I have two main lines which I plan on using my Z-4000 (one side of the Z for the large outer loop and the other for the inner loop). Right now my inner loop is not wired so basically I use my Z-4000 for the Roundhouse area and large outer loop.
My roundhouse area is all wired with toggle switches so realistically I would never power all the whisker tracks at once and the track merges onto the main loop just under the Lionel Coal Tower, so the length is really only about 7-8 feet of track at one given time. However, I some huge engines that need to be powered like the Big Boy and Challenger. I was toying with the idea of buying another Z-4000, but I figured that might be overkill. I was looking at a 180 W Lionel Power Brick but that only uses 18 V instead of 21 V in a Z-4000.
Please let me know what your recommendations are and I took a photograph of my roundhouse area for reference for what I was describing. Thanks again everyone!