A couple of ideas to check and help you.
1. Use an ohmeter to check if you have a short with the turnout taken out of the layout. You may want to move the turnout around a little and try and force a short.
2. Trace the tracks on 3 track side of the turnout with ohmeter(no track power) to each other and the point side track.
If you have the layout blocked, you can also turn off various blocks to see if the short comes and goes based on the blocks
A lot of times I find the short is something on another part of the layout, such as a derailed car, etc
Richard
You have some wires crossed or the turnout is not properly insulated. I always use insulated rail joiners on every rail that diverges from the frog on Shinohara turnouts, and then provide feeder wires to the track beyond the turnout.
The locomotive trying to run in the opposite direction indicates that the wires to the siding you were trying to run onto are reversed.
Does anyone out there have any idea why two brand new Shinohara code 100 3 way switches would start to short out just out of the blue. I`m using two of them in my new yard. One was installed a month ago and worked perfect untill the other night. Just out of the blue everything was shorting out. I was using an Atlas RS3 and at full power it would just bearly move. When it got to the switch it stopped dead. So I pushed it onto the shinohara switch only to see it try to move in the other direction. Either side on the switch it was running forward, on the switch it was going backwards. So I repalced the switch with an extra 3 way I had. Lasted for maybe 10 minutes and it too start to short out again with no person or train near it. Nothing is wired on the layout yet and there is no scenery down yet. Just track nail to plywood with two power wires connect to the main line.
What could be wrong ?????
Rob
Building my dream layout in my 1800 square foot basement. Mostly Lehigh Valley, some Reading, CNJ mixed in.