Comments on: N-gauge 5 Car Hong Kong Kowloon – Canton Railway https://blog.model-train-help.com/2021/02/n-gauge-5-car-hong-kong-kowloon-canton-railway.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=n-gauge-5-car-hong-kong-kowloon-canton-railway Model railroads and model trains Wed, 03 Mar 2021 04:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Stokes https://blog.model-train-help.com/2021/02/n-gauge-5-car-hong-kong-kowloon-canton-railway.html#comment-46853 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 04:30:58 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=6038#comment-46853 Henry’s suggestion are a great start – cleanliness of wheel and track cause most problems, but there are other causes.

1. Check that there is no hair or fluff wrapped around the axles or caught in the motor/ gearbox.
2. Are the pickups for power collection clean and touching where they should.
3. Using a voltmeter check electrical continuity from wheel treads to pickups, from pickups to the motor and each side of the motor. Any failure here will cause the motor to not operate.

And lastly, are you sure your controller is powering the rails, Is it working? As this is an exotic beast of a train I say this assuming your layout is not overly large. Please don’t shoot me if its a big ‘un and I’m being obvious in my observation, but I have run layouts (Analogue) where controllers have failed.

]]> By: henry nier https://blog.model-train-help.com/2021/02/n-gauge-5-car-hong-kong-kowloon-canton-railway.html#comment-46843 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:54:37 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=6038#comment-46843 you may need to clean the pickup wheels and the metal pickups on the inside surface of the wheels. I use alcohol and cotton tipped swabs for that purpose. I also use the alcohol on cotton balls to clean the rails. hope this works for you.

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