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I had a similar problem with one of the Life Like Train set power packs. I just bought an Athearn DC Power pack that puts out up to 7 amps and now things run much better. Even my cheap Life Like Diesels can crawl at only 20 on the speed dial as opposed to nearly half throttle to get them moving on the old one. My Athearn's still take a bit more juice to run them but they also have much more throttle now to play with as well. I actually know how fast they can really go now. I thought they were slower than my Life Like's before this new power supply, Boy was I wrong , they will chase down and pu***he Life Like's now when before it was the other way around. The problem with using multiple power packs together is you always do one of two things, You either add the curretn (Amps) or you add the voltage of the two power supplies. If you do it wrong in your wiring of these you could very well destroy the wiring or motor in the locomotive on the track if you turn up the throttle too high. It might be possible to set up power districts on your layout by isolating the two power sources using insulated rail joiners where the two secions meet so that you don't have too much power going to the track.
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