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Kid: There's a lot of good advice in the posts here.   Here's another factoid that you may take some comfort in:  Linn Wescott wrote an article for MR years ago (I think '63 or '64) entitled "Can Derailments be Banished?"  One of the things he said surprised him was that the Atlas #6  gave more trouble than the #4.  One would expect just the opposite given the bigger radius, etc. of the #6.  I know the tooling of the Atlas switches has changed since this article was written, but in the odd 40 plus years I've been fooling with the custom line switches, it has been my experience that the #6s are far more prone to causing problems than the #4s.    So it's not just your imagination.  Most be some kind of tolerence problem meets geometery.  I'm not knocking Atlas products, or those who use them.  I've got plenty myself, and most of them give good service.  But I know how frustrating it can be when you run into a problem like this.  If the various fixes suggested here don't work for you, I'd rip up the track and replace with something that operates to your satisfaction.JBB
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