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WELCOME ABOARD. I think what you are using are the plastic spacers to intentionaly segregate/isolate track power. When you place the engine between two distant spacers and your power leads are connected to that track within those plactic connectors and power up, your loco moves, until it crosses the next pastic connector. What you have done is segregated power within. You have created what is call a block./zone <br />Plastic does not conduct electricity. You are interrupting the current flow. You need metal rail joiners that permit electricity to pass through. <br />Plastic plays a part but not in your application <br /> <br />I have had to file down too, because of uneven track.
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