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Another good idea, is to use the N-track standard of "power drops" every 3-feet or so around the layout. When I do turnouts, I install a set of power drops on all three legs. If you still have stalling, you're getting poor connections at the points, or the railjoiners/pivot point. I also solder a set of drops on the points rails, and this eliminates this problem. If you have a "electrofrog" or metal frog, you will need to take your Dremel with cut-off disk, and slice through both rails that join at the frog point. In N-scale, I go back 5/8" from the point of the frog. In HO, you might want to go 3/4". Then you will have a "dead frog", but any loco will clear that distance before the trailing trucks hit it, and with power on all sides, you will never stall again. Food for thought. Robert
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