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Thanks. I am not using Atlas switches. I am using mostly Micro Engineering and Shinohara. I went back and re-read some of the wiring manuals and they all recommend to gap both rails where two switches meet frog to frog. I didn't do that and that may be part of the problem. Also it recommends to connect the feeders at the point end of turnouts and I didn't do that in all of them. If I correct those two problems and add some extra feeders I think it should be ok. When the engine runs between two turnouts a few sparks can be seen by the wheels and then the engine stops. Is this because the gaps aren't set correctly? I don't want to have to start over but I have only wired this one section so it won't be too bad. Any more advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John
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