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Dead Spot On Track
Mike is hoping for some free advice from others in the hobby and asks:
“Why do I get a dead spot on one of my tracks? Its only half a section, and the Locomotive light will go off. If the train is going fast enough, it plows through and gets a live wire…but if its going slow enough it will come to a halt. Obviously, I checked the rail and connectors.”
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If your sure you have got all the normal stuff covered dirty wheels lose connections etc,—- You didn,t say if you were running DCC or not but if you are I have had the same problem the engine would stop or slow down and then take off again for no reason. I fixed the problem by resetting the option switch in the command station back to factory spec which cleared all the internal memory and everything started running normal again. Good Luck