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[quote user="selector"]And....AND... I am pretty sure your little switcher, the first one, came with rubber tires on one axle to help with traction.  I may be late now, but I have the same diesel, and I couldn't get it to run more than 12" on my layout.  I do run DCC.  When I inquired, the kind tech at Walthers told me that my problem would probably go away if I installed an all metal-tired replacement axle that they would happily ship to me for nothing.  I accepted, installed it, and have had no problems since.  It was getting insufficient power pickup because the rubber tires meant a loss of about 50% of the potential for power transmission via the rails and metal wheel sets.Also, my very first engine was a BLI DCC and sound Hudson.  I ran it on a DC transformer for 10 weeks before I saw the light...I wanted to be able to make the decoder run the engine more realistically.  Once I installed my system, a simple plug and play with the same two wires, I was having fun making the decoder do what I wanted it to do.Try DCC.  Watch out for rubber traction tires on short engines, be they diesel or steam.[/quote]  We have a winner on the problem diagnosis.Switching the rubber traction wheels to an all metal wheel solved the problem.Thanks for the tip selector  and thanks all for sewing the seed of a future DCC convert.
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