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You can try impoving the # of wheels that pick up power. If you can scratch build you could buy a small Athearn unit (sw7) and modify it to fit in a tender. The truck frames would be the hard part,but you could sand them down and glue on the old tender frames to cover them. I did this with an old AHM 2-8-0 that had a poor quality powered tender that stalled all the time at turnouts. It fixed that problem but exposed a new undiscovered problem. The dang thing now derailed in turnouts and I couldn't get it to stop. I fixed the stall but found the underlying cause was a tracking problem that I never could fix.
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