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Thanks very much everyone for your replies. I'm a newbie and so much of this is stuff I would never have even thought of. I'll try a few of these things out and see if I get a better result. To answer the questions of a few, I had only connected the power at one point of the track, and I was testing without passenger cars. I was initially using the Hornby power clip system, but this was quite poor as the power connectcors seemed to be losing contact with contacts in the clip. I visited my local hobby store, but they didn't have anything like the knowledge of you guys. Anyway, they sold me some Atlas terminal joiners, which are such a great idea, so I cut off the little power clip joiner from the Hornby controller and soldered the new terminal joiners on. This significantly improved the layout from providing one or no circuits, to the five or six max I mentioned above. But then the problem would occur as I've noted. The binding seems to be exactly what is happening. Both engines are brand new, but I had heard that the lubrication can dry out from sitting in storage. mcouvillion - you mention not to use oil - what do you recommend instead? I've bought some heavier gauge wire as feeders, as well as some more of the terminal joiners, to allow me to have three separate power connection points (ie every 3 meters of track). I don't intend to run more than one loco per track (ie max two on the layout at any one time), but I'm still wondering whether the 1Amp controller is just too small for the job (oh, I should note I have a separate controller for the inside and outside circuits). I'll give these things a go, as well as testing MisterBeasley's suggested experiment to see if that helps at all. Many thanks again to the informative replies, it's great that people are so willing to help a newbie. Cheers Anton Brisbane, Australia
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