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Jarrell, I doubt it is not the loco. These babies shouldn't have any pick up problems. Steam has problems when the tender and drivers pick up from different rails and the wheel base is short. This is common in old brass and plastic models. Bli Has all wheel pick up and I believe the tender picks up both sides. A 2-6-6-2 is so large that it shouldn't be beaching itself on a turnout. The wheel bases should extend through an un powered frog to proivide power. Larger steam like this is far less finicky about power pick up than say a 2-8-0 or 0-8-0 would be in the same situation. One thing big locos don't like is tight radius turnouts. Even though a loco this large can go through switches this small, it doesn't mean it is a good idea. I would go with no 5 or larger. Dnwitty has the right idea. Is this a power routing switch?? If it is, you may have to jumper the points to the stock rails depending on how the switch is wired. I would try feeding the switch power from the point side with some feeders. Solder the joints leading to and from the switch and lastly (Other may disagree with this) maybe get some higher quality switches. Walthers/Shinohara, Micro Engineering, Peco all come to mind. I sure by now you have probably solved it. Let us know...
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