Thanks, gunrunnerjohn. I am discovering more about my confusion. I have been looking in part at this original "The Complete Guide to Command Control" that came with my first TMCC locomotive. It is copyright 1995 and says things like: "You must operate UCS/RCS uncouple/unload tracks with their original equipment controllers, not with SC-1s." I'm realizing that I have missed out on a decade or more of TMCC development! (Just what, or was, is an SC-1, anyway?) OK, I'll catch up. I get it now. You wire the operating tracks to the "OTC" which receives the signal from the Cab-1 to activate the track. Power goes into the OTC from an accessory transformer. I'm going to get one and see how it goes.