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<p>[quote user="ATLANTIC CENTRAL"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">ATLANTIC CENTRAL</div> <div class="quote-content">I'm sure the manufacturers would love to find a better solution, but at what price?</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>PC board drawbar, found on nearly all MTH Premier Line scale O 2 and 3 rail locomotives with Protosound 3.0. </p> <p>Alternately Lionel uses somesort of IR connection (no sure what it is but there is some sort of send/receive between the two, may be unidirectional).</p> <p>To the OP:</p> <p>Where other trains on the same track shutting down?  This sounds not like a short but more like intermittant contact.  I have the Chessie T1.  Have not had these same issues. </p> <p>Did you clean the wheels on the locomotive and tender before you ran it?</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>And so why have they not done that in HO? Apparently it does not scale down well?</p> <p>Sheldon</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Maybe strength is an issue?  They make circuit boards in all kinds of sizes.  The 18" radius requirement in HO scale might be another issue, but most of the MTH O stuff generally goes around 27" radius, some as tight as 15.5" (O31).  So maybe a combination of the above.</p>
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