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<p>Its definitely the power pickup on the tender.  If it where the frogs the Bachmann Spectrum 4-4-0 would have the same problem or worse.  And since I have the Peco Insulfrog turnouts wired up so that Left rail/Right rail are soldered to their respective partner on the diverging route, and feeders on all 3 ends of each turnout,  I seriously doubt that the 5/8" of dead track is causing a problem.  As to the insulfrog shorting issue: the only problem I have are my LL Proto 2000 E7As and some passenger cars are momentarily sparking on the opposite route on a Peco small radius (24") Wye, Problem was corrected with application of some black, followed by nutmeg (rail brown) craft paint. <--Now that is a bandage on the problem!  I will have to treat that one like an electrofrog.   </p> <p>I've tried making those wheel wiper pickups before, managed to destroy the spring.</p>
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