I'm making an assumption that you had this Christmas display up and running OK last year?....for a few last years?
So, one of the bugaboos that our (LHS) customers run into with the seasonal layout thing is those special sections...like the ones with gaps in a rail, the insulated sections that do not tie the two outer rails together, etc.. Unfortunately, unless you are aware of them, or have identified them in some more obvious way, they can appear to be just another 5" or 10" piece of track.....lurking in the layout to cause electrical mayhem!!
So, if you had/added Fastrack accessories....crossing flashers w/ or w/o gates...or added a Fastrack Accessory Activation package....for signal(s), gateman, etc....BOTH of which have those meddlesome/necessary 5" gap sections of track in which the gapped rails MUST be aligned for operation, but not continuity, and the gapped rails, if aligned properly MUST have an accessory or track piece(s) between that isolate the outer rails.....(is any of this coming back to you?......making sense??)....in order for the accessory(S) to work properly...........................................................you may have this sort of issue.
OTOH, it's indeed possible that the CW80 has issues. IMHO they were not as robust as ye olde 1033's of yore.
Keep the faith, bro. The forumites are here to help you!
KD
