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I have had the same problem with Atlas code 100 turnouts. The frogs are non powered and a 4 axle locomotive will get one truck on the frog and the other truck on the dead part of the point rails and it stops. Tapping one truck or the other usually moves it to a point where contact resumes, the decoder reboots and the movement of the train resumes. I have slowly been replacing the Atlas turnouts with Peco and Shinohara product. Incidentally, an SD-9, with six axles has a long enough "wheelbase" so as to not be affected by this problem. One remedy might be to only run six axle diesels;0) <br /> <br />Bear in mind that when you switch to Peco or Shinohara you may need some additional rail gaps that you didn't need with the Atlas product. <br /> <br />Ed
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