First Post. I am building my first layout with a lot of inherited trains. The Layout is 8' x 12' it is in my unheated garage. I am now getting to the wiring phase. I have looked at a lot of ways of wiring the lighted buildings and street lamps. Here is what I had planned to do, hopefully I can get some pros and Cons from the forum. I really do not want to fry my trains. I have about half a dozen lighted buildings mostly MTH and about 10 street lamps and such. I was planning on dropping wires running them to a terminal strip and then to an atlas on off switch, powered by a Lionel 1.8 Amp accessory transformer. I had thought about a feeder line, but did not want to do all that wiring into the feeder. I am running three trains, two of the loops have lionel automated accessories(milk platform, sawmill, barrel loader, drum loader, cattle and horse corrals. The outer line will be powered by a MTH Z1000, it is running a k-line B&O passenger set powered by a Williams Hudson B&O engine (sucker is 30lbs) the only accessories are a switch Tower, freight platform and passenger station, is 100 watts enough? The second line is pulling freight with a MTH RailKing 6-8-6 turbine, powered with a MTH Z750 transformer. This line has the sawmill, cattle loader, horse loader, drum loader, wood loader and barrel loader along with 3 switches. I was thinking of using a TW for some of the items, is that good? I am scared to use the TW to run the train though. I also could use a 1033 transformer I have. On the inner loop I have a Lionel post war 2018 pulling freight, I was going to use the TW to power this loop as well as the icing station, milk platform, and coal loader. Can someone tell me if I am headed in the right direction? I have been researching using old lionel books and a Greenberg book.
Thanks
