Markers for uncouper positions?

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I am using the Brain Kirby method of uncoupling so I cannot physically see the exact uncoupling position.

How do you mark your uncoupling positions so you can see when rolling stock is in the correct position to uncouple?
Thanks
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[Mountain]

Anything from an odd bit of offcut of rail to a sign that says in bold letters "Uncoupling magnet".
A small rock or a discarded fishplate. Anything that you know it is there.
Could mark it on the side of the layout with a number, the number showing which track it is (E.g. 3 = The third track from the baseboard edge). Whatever works for you.

[heda]

I use Kadee's and hide the magnets under some wood planking (wood crossing) so I know exactly where they are. Otherwise as Mountain suggest anything that you can see that would naturally be there, a small shrub, sign, stack of sleepers, discarded oil drum.

Dave

[Dad-1]

I've used several different markers for the Kadees.
On the club's West Bay Layout one is by a ground signal with some black sand in
the ballast to show the entire magnetic field. The other is two fingers of grass
extending from the greenery boundary towards the track, again the gap between
shows the invisible magnetic zone.

Then on a shunting layout I have some small wooded studs (matchsticks) just proud
of the yard ballast with white painted tops that just look like some yard marker, which
of course they are. I've also used small squares of toilet paper, one ply coaxed out of 3 ply
laid on the ballast and stuck down by a blob of Enamel varnish. The enamel varnish yellows
and looks like a piece of wind blown newspaper.

Then an old oil drum for a yard, or on a platform a rail worker, wood carton, milk churns.
even an advertising sign on fencing.

Geoff T.

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Thanks Chaps.
That gives me some ideas. There's quite a lot of uncoupling points to mark out.
Thanks
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