Thanks Mark. Old age is a factor, also!
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GN passenger train PM and test.
These are the streamlined cars with a GN S-2 4-8-4. The S-2 is a BLI hybrid and the cars are IHC from the 70's.
One car derailed and found the wheels were out of gauge.
I had more trouble with the engine. With 16 passenger cars, the engine was torqueing to the left and causing the front drivers to derail. BLI puts a lot of side slop between the frame and drivers.
I put two washers on each side of the back driver axle but that didn't help.
Also, added some weight to the front trucks.
I have two of these hybrid engines so I put the 2nd one on the passenger train and it ran fine. Later, I checked the drivers and I had, already, put washers on the front and back set of drivers.
Weird results of the engine entering from the staging power to the yard power where the engine would, by itself, stop and reverse and once past the same point, do the opposite, indefinitely.
I cut the common rail dividing the two power districts just past the new turnout....
plus, about 4' down from the turnout, the common side rail solder connector was broken. Not sure which fixed the problem, if not both were needed, but all's good, now.
Added a light to the passenger yard throat as it was difficult to see if equipment derailed. The commercial turnouts, finally, seem to be working well.
The box that my new engine came in had some mice 'chewings'. The large hole got some paper glued on the inside.
The missing paper was, then, filled in with carpenter's glue and micro-balloons (an RC plane product).
