We may have an AH HA moment!

I found this thread on MRR discussing the same "pickup" problem i was experiencing;  i am beginning to believe this is NOT an EZTRACK issue,  but an issue with electrical pickups which are not soldered.http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/199280.aspx

These are really cool locos;  i am not looking forward to "major surgery" though

Regards

Dan

Thanks Jerry; it appears I'm out of luck since the turnouts are permanently on the layout now; i'm belatedly finding out i should have used the numbered turnouts instead of "remote" turnouts.

Now i have to figure a way to power them without the benefit of turning them over...

I guess the moral to the story is get powered turnouts; i think, and....leave the EZTRACK in the hobby shop next time i do a layout!

Thanks again!

Dan

Thanks Jerry

I know it's the turnout and not the loco because Athearn let me have another one and the same problem persists.

How would I "power the frog" on EZTRACK?

(sounds fun somehow)

regards

Dan

Greetings

I have a 4 year old 4 x 8 layout with Bachmann EZTRACK "remote" turnouts.  the layout is very similar to the Worlds Greatest Hobby model.

I just bought a new Athearn GP9,  DCC and sound, ( A GREAT little unit by the way) which stops-briefly or resets -losing power- most times when traversing any of my turnouts; both the ones i activate remotely and the ones i do by hand.

My Proto switcher, Bachmann Decapod and Roundhouse 2-8-0 have none of these issues.

I drove to Athearn in Long Beach and Dave there was nice enough to run my loco on their Atlas test track without being able to duplicate the problem.

Seems to happens when the GP's trucks are over either the frogs or the points or both

Thanks for any advice or ideas

Dan