In the early postwar before magnwetraction, Lionel made an 027 uncoupling operating car track which was designed to achieve remote control magic on cars equipped with slider shoes. Believe it was 1019. It had 2 control rails running the length of the piece and no magnet and you could uncouple slider shoe equipped couplers which had the solenoid activation as well as log, coal, dump, etc cars. The section can be operated on an independent voltage independent of track power. I have already miounted the piece on my layout. Need to know the screw to connect to ind voltage and also ground to. Thought it was 2 and 3. However can’t make that work. Pls help with correct arrangement.
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To clarify a little, for RCS & 1019 sections, connect your accessory/auxilliary common ground to terminal (1), or any convenient spot at the control panel or on the layout.
Disconnect the wire from terminal (4) and don’t put any wire on it. Connect your accessory/auxilliary power to the wire/lead you took off terminal (4) and adjust your accessory/auxilliary transformer for optimal operation of your rolling stock on the 1019 track section.
Ok. Sounds like 1 can go direct to ground bus but 3 goes a normally open push button to control the operating car that I spot on the 1019 control section Thnks
Terminal (4) stays unoccupied. It’s just a connection to the center rail. You can actually use this as a connection point for power to the track for trains, as it is the same electrically to the (1) clip on a CTC lockon. Terminal (1) on the 1019 corresponds to clip (2) on the CTC if you want to make both connections here.
It appears Fig 6 and Fig 7 don’t agree with each other. Fig 6 is correct.
Figure 6 is correct for the RCS.
Figure 7 is correct for the UCS & 1019(althought he screw terminals are not depicted). I have changed my directions above to reflect that.
Ok to clarify my comment above “Sounds like 1 can go direct to ground bus”
should have said 2, not 1; if you connect ground bus to # 1, you still have an open circuit to control rail and must use the Lionel Controller or some other double pole single throw normal open push button. If you connect ground direct to terminal 2, than that control rail is always connected and “ready” to complete path back to ground. This does mean any momentary bridging to center rail creates a short, but I am not concerned about that.