I am going to build a Fastrack layout, and have bought some old gondola cars w/ shoe-activated couplers. How do I use the Fastrack uncoupling track to activate the shoe couplers?? Or what other way can I accomplish this?
Rookie to Lionel, BTW.
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Mike, You need the accessory operating track for activating the sliding shoe couplers.
Or you can get fastback adapter tracks and use the old Lionel activation tracks.
franktrain
Thanks- $45!! Ugh.
You should be able to get a discount from one of the larger dealers like some of our forum sponsors. However, I don't know how much they discount that item?
Yes, I saw that price also and thought the same thing.
I made my own contact rails on a previous GarGraves layout by taking a short piece of un-insulated #14 copper wire, bending it into a long inverted U shape, (one end of the U long enough to go down under the layout board to grab power) drilling into the ties and mounting them horizontally along the track just inside the running rails at the appropriate locations, and energizing them with a push button. I installed them originally for operating freight cars on my kid's display layout, but the concept is the same for coil couplers.
"Shoe couplers".
I know what you mean, of course, but there's a joke in there somewhere...maybe a new electronic device to keep prisoners from running away?
Something to replace shoelaces, like Velcro, but needing a battery?
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