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cwclark has one possible solution. You are not getting a short, just the opposite! I have constant trouble with Atlas tunouts and 4 axle locomotives. When one truck is on the (non-powered) frog the other is on the point rail (the one that moves) and it is sometimes also dead because the rivets that allow it to pivot work loose just enough to provide unreliable conductivity. Bingo, suddenly both trucks are not powered, the locomotive stops. If the flywheels provide sufficient "coasting" to get one of the trucks on powered rail the decoder "reboots" and everything is back to normal. I have found that my Peco turnouts do not suffer from this same defect so I am swaping them out. Many of my Atlas turnouts have frogs that appear to be made from an insulating material so the powering the frogs option is not an option for me. If your turnouts have metal frogs then your solution is the one cwclark proposes.
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