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1. Make sure all drivers and leading/trailing trucks are in gauge. 2. Make sure everything is lubed properly (not too much, not to little). 3. Make sure side rods, etc, are not adding any more friction than they have to. 4. Make sure locomotive is getting all the electricity it can - clean the pickup wheels, any contacts. This might help them make it through switches. Sometime the tenders also pickup power and the coupler to the engine transmits it. If so, make sure good contact is being made there, too. 5. ADD WEIGHT. N-scaler steamers are notoriously underweight - that's why so many of them have traction tires. If a loco starts to slip it's wheels before it starts to stall it's motor, that's a sign that adding weight would improve its pulling power. Try taping pennies, nickles, whatever to the top of it as an experiment. There's not usually much room inside these little jewels to add weights, though. If you think doing so would help enough to make it worth the trouble, you might consider using titanium weights - denser than lead. You might check at a golf pro shop for them (don't ask). If you want to get really carried away, use depleted uranium (just kidding)! Bill
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