Comments on: How To Fix Railroad Track Power Outage https://blog.model-train-help.com/2015/05/how-to-fix-railroad-track-power-outage.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-fix-railroad-track-power-outage Model railroads and model trains Wed, 13 May 2015 02:23:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Frank https://blog.model-train-help.com/2015/05/how-to-fix-railroad-track-power-outage.html#comment-8997 Wed, 13 May 2015 02:23:26 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3598#comment-8997 Hi Keith !
Please may I ask some diagnostic questions ?

What is “blowing” ? The fuse in the controller, or just a thermal cutout that resets itself later ?

What scale and what make are the engines, and how old are they ?
What is the make and current output of your controller ?
(Marked on specification panel, below or behind unit.)

Does this occur with the Deltics individually, or only together ?
Can you check the resistance of the Deltics motors ? (Set each loco on a single (isolated) piece of track, a multimeter on low ohms range, take a reading with the probes across the two rails.)
Are you sure there is no short circuit on the track itself ?

Just give us what information you can, and we’ll start figuring !

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