I am in the process of building my layout and have worked through many problems to date with help from members on the OGR Forum and for this I offer a sincere thank you. All of my Fastrack is now laid and all 21 switches are working flawlessly.
I am working on the sidings now. I have wired the Fastrack uncoupling tracks to auxiliary power and all are working smoothly. On my first siding I have an MTH 785 Coaling Tower wired and working and a Fundimensions Lionel Coaling Station that works perfectly with my Lionel dump cars. This siding only uses tubular track as I did not want to mess with the Coaling Station's existing configuration to accommodate a Fastrack operating track section (so the operating track section under the Coaling Station is O Gauge Tubular). My Kline dump cars work perfectly as well using both the Kline wireless controller and the Coaling Station's controller.
I recently acquired 3 MTH dump cars and the instructions say that they will work with any manufacturer's operating tracks. I am about to wire 4 Fastrack operating tracks on the other sidings. Before doing so, I tried the 3 MTH cars under the Coaling Station with the Lionel tubular operating track. They will uncouple, but they will not dump. It's hard to believe that all three cars are not operable. What could be wrong? Will they, perhaps, work on the Fastrack operating sections. I couldn't find any help with a thorough search. Any suggestions will be deeply appreciated.