E-Z street vehicle speed

[CJ_Rex]

I tried my best to search for this topic, and came up empty, so apologies if it's already been discussed.

I have a relatively small E-Z street setup, integrated into my On30 layout for a Christmas Village. I have 3 new E-Z street vehicles, unmodified out of the box, and they all run at different speeds, eliminating the ability to run all 3 at the same time.

I'm running a second set of parallel E-Z street tracks to run in the opposite direction and create two directions of traffic, but that's currently running an O Scale trolley, from Lionel which also runs at a different speed, but that's obviously to be expected.

Ideally, I'd really like all 3 vehicles to run at the same speed on one track.

I'm running DCC for the 3 locos on the train layout, and I believe it's possible to equip ez streets with DCC, but I'd really like to avoid the money and effort involved in equipping the e-z street vehicles, and purchasing an additional DCC controller for a layout that's only out 1 month a year.

Has anyone else experienced this, or identified a solution?

How likely is it, that thoroughly cleaning the contact points on all 3 and the track will solve it, or opening up the vehicles and re-greasing the gears? I've tried letting the vehicles run individually for long stretches of time to see if they 'break in', but that hasn't seemed to do much.

Are E-Z street vehicles designed (ideally) to all run at the same speed out of the box?


Thanks!!!

[Len]

No need for a seperate DCC controller for the EZ-Streets. Install "Z" scale decoders in the vehicles and tie the power for the EZ-Streets to your current DCC power feed. Give each vehicle a sepeate addess and your in business. You'll need to play with speed curves on the vehicles to get them runnng at the same speed.

Len