MTH Operating Box Car w/ Signal Man: bell button or uncoupling/unloading track to activate?

bajinnovaOGR Forum Member

I'm looking at the MTH Operating Box Car with Signal Man, 30-7564, PRR "Road of the Turbine" livery. The MTH product page (https://mthtrains.com/search/30-7465) has a video that says it operates anywhere on the layout with any transformer with a bell button, and also has instructions that say it works on an operating track section. Can anyone tell me which (or both?) of these is correct? The car has both slide shoes and a center pickup roller, I'd like to use it with a conventional layout, with a UCS track section powered by 14V accessory terminals, in other words the center rail won't necessarily have any voltage when the "unload" function of the UCS track is operated. I'd like to understand how it will work before I buy one. Thanks!

11/11/199:04 AM

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