Hi all,
I have a second loop of track that I am going to use to run some traditional O trains I have. One of these is an old 4-6-4 hudson junior with railsounds tender. I have run this train on my main layout (now occupied by a few Legacy engines) with no sound issues. On this new ring of track, while the engine pulls just fine with no interruptions, the railsounds regularly cut out momentarily before coming back on briefly, then cutting out again, etc. If the train is in neutral, the engine plays the idle sounds and whistle/bell just fine.
To make sure the tender actually still worked and nothing had gone kaput while the guy was on the shelf, I took just the tender and pulled it behind another train on the main layout to see if things worked correctly. Chuff sounded just fine. I also ran a plain Lionchief loco (diesel) on the problem layout, its sounds were just fine.
The second small layout is powered with a very old CW-80, while the main layout uses a GW-180. The CW-80 light does not blink when running the train, so I am inclined to think it could be a track issue, but I'm stumped as to what it could be. I'm only using O36 curves and 10" straights, no fancy tricks here (yet!). Any thoughts? Thanks for considering!
