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In this hobby we all have our own hobby horses and mine is camber. Really to me it sounds like a camber problem, especially if your are getting disconnections as well. To rule out contact conductivity, try running your loco around with the light on; if the head light flickers it is to do with contact between the rail and the power pick up. Do you have more than one loco and is it doing it with all locos? So: 1/ check the power pick ups and the wheels and make sure they are all pristine. Although you may not realise it, this problem will be different in some parts of your layout to others and from loco to loco, why i don't know? 2/ Get a small spirit level, say about 50 to 100 mm long (2" to 4") and check the how level the track is from side to side, this is the camber. You should have something like a centre bubble. Particularly tough will be where you have adjoining sections with opposite camber, this is really a lot worse that you would think.  I actually own 5 spirit levels of different sizes plus a big water level to really know what you are doing. 3/ How do you know the gradient is fairly modest? looks can be decieving, have you measured it and if so how? Rgds ian
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