I have a friend who isn't on this forum with the following questions:
remote control track questions: What causes a remote control track to uncouple cars when it is not activated? What makes a very rarely used remote control track get very hot in the uncoupling section and short out an entire loop of track?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide with this.
Ron Ferrel
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I have had some third rail pickups that were either to wide or not centered properly contact both the third rail and also one of the fifth rails on the remote control track. This caused the magnetic coil to become energized. Since I was running TMCC there was a full 18 volts applied to the coil. The locomotive was stopped at the time and the coil started smoking before I figured out what was causing the problem.
On a 6019 or UCS track, if the magnet coil is getting hot and frying that means there is/was track power constantly applied (per David's example) so a melt-down occurs. Either a short in the controller or an incorrect connection in the track itself. If your uncoupling tracks are the UCS or RCS type where you can disconnect the controllers, do that and see if the trouble persists.
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