Mister Bill
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I have a Broadway Limited 4-6-2 that stalls in the same place every time on my layout when every other engine runs through the area just fine.
My layout is a double dogbone with two identical S curves of code 100 flelxtrack. There are no joints where the engine fails. It just loses power and shuts off. If I nudge it a ¼”, it starts again and makes the lap around the rest of the layout just fine and stops dead the next time around. If I change directions, it runs through the problem area and stalls on the mirror image of the flelxtrack dog bone on the other side. With a piece of flex track, it cannot be the track work. The track is super clean. Granted, there is very little straight away in the middle of the S curve.
Can anyone suggest a cause? I don’t know if it is a decoder problem, track problem, or a manufacturing defect.
Bill
My layout is a double dogbone with two identical S curves of code 100 flelxtrack. There are no joints where the engine fails. It just loses power and shuts off. If I nudge it a ¼”, it starts again and makes the lap around the rest of the layout just fine and stops dead the next time around. If I change directions, it runs through the problem area and stalls on the mirror image of the flelxtrack dog bone on the other side. With a piece of flex track, it cannot be the track work. The track is super clean. Granted, there is very little straight away in the middle of the S curve.
Can anyone suggest a cause? I don’t know if it is a decoder problem, track problem, or a manufacturing defect.
Bill