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Reply to "Am I doing wrong with wiring on my unloading homemade track?"

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Since it's only an unloading track, why not tie one to the outside rail and just switch the second one?

What's not clear to me is whether Jerry wants uncoupling action too based on his following comment.

Jerry A posted:
 

... I soldered the two wired rail sections together and added a power lead from one.

...when I run a dump car over my new homemade rails I get nothing no coupling or unloading. 

I may be misunderstanding, but I read above that his dump car has uncoupling ability (with an in-car coil coupler). 

But if this home-made track section is only needed for unloading...and any UCS-like coupling action is activated elsewhere on the layout...then I like GRJ's idea.  Break the connection between the two custom added control rails.

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