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Regular contributors to this column will know that i had similar problems (losing track power intermittently) with my ICE train and Stainz and i concluded that the power pick ups needed replacing. I did just this and it fixed the ICE train up straight away but the result was not so clear cut with the Stainz; in fact it is still playing up. If you have a newly cleaned track and the power pick ups are clean it will work ok, sometimes for hours and hours. But after a while its power pickups get dirty with black gooy substance on their contact area, clean this off and it will run ok again for a limited time. Has anyone any idea why it would do this; considering i have many other locos that do not have this same problem under the same circumstances. Also it has a powered tender running with it all the time and it does not have any trouble at all. It almost looks to me as though something electrical is missing inside of it and the build up may be to do with that; ie an electrical problem rather than a mechanical one. This is my oldest and favourite loco. Any ideas rgds ian
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