Anybody know how to rewire a Lionel uncoupling track?
Should there be a red and black wire up to the coil and should there be wire a wire add to the metal base?
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yes. and no.
Did you test it after removing it from the old track?
The base of the magnet can be connected to the outside rail jumper bar on the bottom of the track. That's the common or ground.
Then, a hot wire to a button or momentary toggle and then to the coil wire. The coil wire doesn't look healthy. It looks like the end that connects to common or ground is not connected. if there is two little pieces, one would connect to the magnet plate. The other would receive the hot wire from the switch.
I would also solder a jumper wire to connect the cut in the center rail.
Use some alligator clip jumpers to test it before soldering.
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some good info here
You can also do this, from the link posted above. Hiding the Uncoupling Magnet in Your Yard Tracks
This is Gargraves track, but it would work pretty much the same with Atlas or Ross track as well.
For Fastrack, I just use the uncoupling section that exists for the track, it's pretty unobtrusive.
