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<p>AWESOME!!<br />Thanks Guys!</p><p>Makes perfect sense now. Just the fact that I have to stop the loco, flip the switch that controls the turn-around section of track and throttle up the loco in the opposite direction throttle to net same direction outta the loop...when it gets to the main line, the controller throttle will be "the wrong way" which is what I want.</p><p>Great thanks</p><p>I'll go hook it up now :) (excited)</p><p>I'm obviously a rookie here. I'm pretty good at E R/C planes and helis and cars, but the HO trian set is new to me and the boys. But just like when I started R/C some years ago and found a site like this for R/C, I asked and learned a lot.</p><p>If it's not to rudimentry for ya'll, I'll ask another question: I remember a car de-coupler device years ago when I was a kid and had a big HO train set. It was a little insert in a straight section of track. It consisted of to little spring steel wires. When the train (anc couplers) backed over the spring steel wire rods, it "un coupled" the cars. Stop there and pull away and leave the cars. It didn't uncouple if going forward. We had one at the start of each dead end spur and could back some cars onto the spur and leave them there.</p><p>I aqsked the LHS lady for something like this and she was stearing me to a whole electronic/magnetic system and specific couplers. I remember the simple mechanical thing that the couplers ran through.</p><p>Any advice on what they heck I'm trying to remember? A lot has changed in 30 years.</p><p>Thanks all.</p><p>CooHead</p>
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