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Jamie's idea sounds like it could well fix it. The band of black makes me wonder, though. I would make absolutley sure any dirt and/or oxidation/corrosion is off your wheels. <br />One explanation (guess?) for other locos working well on your track is the new locos have electrical pickup on all wheels. Makes them much less sensitive to bad spots, they have at least ONE wheel getting pickup, even if a few others are not. Yours run well at another layout that does NOT have painted rails, or one that has the inside of the rail clean, at any rate. <br />One off-the-wall idea... yours is not code 83 or code 70 track, is it? The Mantua and other older locos will not have RP25 flanges, I had a (borrowed) Rivarossi that the flanges were almost too deep for a code 100 turnout! Ok, there was a lot of gunk in the frog, and once that was clean, everything was fine. But, I wouldn't put that on a code 70 track, and have my suspicions about code 83. My newer Spectrum equipment should be fine on those, but my freight cars? I just don't know, but no matter, I don't have any code 70. <br />Dean
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