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I have an Atlas accessory rail # 6097 connected to my Lionel ZW transformer on the B and U posts.  The rail works fine but whenever a car with an uncoupling foot goes over the rail, the car uncouples.  If, for example, the log loader passes over it, it dumps the log.  I put tape on the foot and that works, but now I can't use the log car, cow car, etc. for their actions.  Does anyone have a solution? Thanks.

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Thanks for both of your responses.  Atlas instructions say and show a diagram of connecting one post on the accessory track to B/C on the ZW transformer and the other post on the track to U on the ZW transformer.  Very simple.  So yes, it does get constant current because the tracks are not running the accessories, it's the short rails inside the track, which are wired separately, that run the accessory.  I'm guessing that feet under the train shouldn't be getting power from the accessory connection to the track. I had it wired as instructions and after reading Uberstationmeister's response (I can't do the 2 dots over the U), I just switched the wires B to U and U to B.  I still have the problem.  But thanks anyway.  The guy at the train store said he heard of this problem a couple of times, but he had no solution.

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