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[quote user="mbinsewi"] Wow CiscoKid, that uncoupling video is great!  I always thought I didn't want to mess with uncoupling magnets, but this has me rethinking the possibility.  [/quote] Thanks.  I noticed that video was popular.  I had found a fellow with a web post about it and since I made the original long video I am told K&J Magnetics have sold a lot of the little barrel magnets.  I see the hobby shops have also picked up on the idea and are selling the magnets.  I do believe K&J still offer the best prices....not a ad for them by me...just that is their business and they seem good at it. One caveat:  the system works well for all cars with couplers and trip pins with the normal range of pin height from the roadbed.  I do have some passenger cars with knuckle couplers retrofitted to the long arms of the original horn and hook set up.  Well, the strong little magnets grab these like levers and tug them right down to the road bed and slam the train to a halt.  (I am imagining a passenger grabbing the emergency cord!)  These I run very gingerly over the uncoupler sectons while covering the stop button.  Any other couplers very sloppy in their boxes can do the same. And in general, I wouldn't place an uncoupler secton on the mainline in case a train at full throttle had a car with a bad sloppy coupler. However, I am really happy with this method.  I can be ten-twenty feet away, and if my judgement is good as I come to a halt beside my marker bushes, I can assemble a whole 30 car train with a yard engine working over the uncoupler zones on the 6 yard tracks.  It seems really cool to observe.
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