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Operating Track Bleeds Power Into Spur

I have a spur in my Fastrack layout that transitions to tubular O gauge track with two tubular operating tracks to serve a barrel loader and a milk platform.  I wired the first operating operating track to accessory power provided by a post war ZW (have not wired the second one yet).  Per directions in a Lionel PDF, I spliced a wire from the number 3 post on the track to an accessory bus line then spliced another from the same bus line to the unload/uncouple Lionel controller.  The other three wires go directly from the OT to the controller.  The track operates the barrel car (and others) perfectly but power bleeds into the other tracks in the spur (I noticed this by the fact that a caboose lights up beyond the operating track).  Should this happen?  I can't understand how this is so.  Any ideas as to what could be the cause and how to correct it?

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