QUOTE: Originally posted by cmrproducts CHIP! - If the engine continues to give grief, bring it up to my layout and we WILL find the problem! BOB H – Clarion, PA
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
QUOTE: Originally posted by On30Shay How does the Shay go over all of it?
QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse IT is the lead truck from one engine
QUOTE: Originally posted by Don Gibson CHIP: When you 'oiled' (wax is frozen oil) you exacerbated another problem: Pilot trucks picking a turnout - backward's yet. 1. most all pre-fab turnout's are NOT in NMRA spec. somewhere. Easiest fix is a new, and better quality turnout, especially if it's limited to 1 engine and 1 turnout. I replaced my turnout's with Shinohara -and better yet BK - & eliminated 99% all my tracking problem's, but knowing how you like to spend $$, it probably won't happen. BK's allow NMRA positioning of guard rails, and which seem's to be where your problem is. Tracking error is when wheel flanges are not following the track edge which I'm sure you know. Mine is not to reason why, but your's is to do or die. TRY another turnout, and metal pilot wheels ........ and remove any contaminant's.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!