Direct wire Fastrack Uncoupling Track

You take the hot wire from the uncoupling track and hook it up to a button and hook the other side of the button up to your hot lead of your Transformer. The track itself completes the ground so all you need is the hot wire from the button.

John Patrick posted:

.. Interesting how this transformer has the U terminal going to hot (center rail) while all of the other transformers I have read about have the U going to ground (outside rail)..

Check out the 1033 & 1044 also. "U" is hot / center rail on those as well. These two are common examples, but the convention is exactly that for postwar transformers - all single throttle transformers have "U" to the center rail. "A" is often the common/ground/outside rail, but it could be any of several depending on the transformer & application.

As soon as you move to multiple throttle transformers, you will see "U" is common.

For your uncoupling track, with the TW, it should get the ground connection from the layout, which of course is "A" in your case.

Thank you. Just to clarify can I run the hot wire on the uncoupling track to my 14 volt bus that currently only has my 9 switches. This bus is connected to the D terminal (14 volts) on my Type TW transformer or should I run this all the way back to the transformer. Sorry for such an elementary question.

John Patrick posted:

Thank you. Just to clarify can I run the hot wire on the uncoupling track to my 14 volt bus that currently only has my 9 switches. This bus is connected to the D terminal (14 volts) on my Type TW transformer or should I run this all the way back to the transformer. Sorry for such an elementary question.

Hooking it up to the buss is fine.  Of course you have to put a button in between to have control of the uncoupling track.

I did this with my uncoupling tracks.  I replaced the original button box that came with it with a momentary contact switch.  The original switch have a tendency to stick on and burn things up.