Log dump car

K Line, or the much easier to find MTH Railking log cars have nice, realistic, slow, dumping action.

My Rail King dump cars work nice and slow and it gives a little hiccup at the top of the cycle to shake loose  any sticky ones. extremely reliable

Do the rail king cars work off of the standard magnetic track section or are they remote control?

They use an RCS track. The RCS track is the one with the extra power rails in addition to an uncoupling magnet.

They are powered by the 4th and 5th rails on the uncouple-unload sections. They have sliding shoes that are more track friendly than the Lionel postwar type sliding shoes.

You can buy just the rails in any length you want from Ross Switches then spike them down to your Gargraves track, now you have an operating track that can dump two cars at one time.  

I use cargraves track with Ross switches. I have a section of #108 cargraves UC/UL track.  Will this work with the MTH log dump cars?

clem k posted:

You can buy just the rails in any length you want from Ross Switches then spike them down to your Gargraves track, now you have an operating track that can dump two cars at one time.  

...and Atlas O item #6097, Accessory Rails, is what I installed on my Gargraves spurs at the appropriate dump points.....coal and logs.  Proverbial 'piece of cake' to install,.....AND.....much less expensive than a full monty RCS section.   Includes rails, wires, push button actuator.  

Oh, yes....they're blackened, too, which blends in nicely with the blackened center rail of the Gargraves track.

And, I concur....the slo-mo dumpers....and reefers/boxcars....are nice and reliable.  Of course, they lack the 'violent chutzpah' of their Lionel predecessors which is an essential element for the post-war Lionel shtik-o-philes.

...to all of which the TEHO principle applies.

KD

Thanks, I use the Atlas 6059 uncouplers with the cargraves track.

I just ordered 2 of the 6097 rails.

Thanks again for the info.