https://blog.model-train-help.com/2009/12/train-stopping-on-40-feet-of-track.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=train-stopping-on-40-feet-of-track Model railroads and model trains Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2009/12/train-stopping-on-40-feet-of-track.html#comment-586 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:57:54 +0000 http://68.171.208.138/~blogmode/2009/12/train-stopping-on-40-feet-of-track.html#comment-586 Check your pickups on your axles and/or the pins that rub inside on the wheel flanges, what happens is this, sometimes the engine derails usually on a switch and shorts out causing the spring tensions on these parts to fail or go intermittent causing the action you described. I had a Riverosie challenger 4-6-6-4 and fried the springs that held the pickups against the inside flange causing the same effect. Good Luck, Alan C Lompoc, Ca.

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