I have a real nice looking DT&I Weaver caboose BUT. The P/U rollers won't run through turnouts without derailing.
I know the cause but other than a truck change I have no answer. The spring travel is too short, it drops into the rail gap and then pops up and derails. Running it on other brands of turnouts makes no difference. Has anyone tried replacing the trucks?
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Jim,
No solution, but I have the same problem with my Weaver Rutland caboose. The pick up roller does not like Ross switches at all. If the roller makes it through a Ross switch the roller stills trips the circuit breaker when it touches one of the outside rail while the caboose bounces through the switch.
Richard
It's a nicely decorated caboose. I might just remove the roller assembly and leave it dark.
I deactivate caboose lighting, myself, intentionally, with one method or another. It usually looks odd, and with command control's 18V it appears that an atomic reaction is occurring in there.
One could not typically see any lights on in a real caboose during bright daylight hours, anyway. They would be off, probably. At night, a glow or maybe a single lamp would show. This can be done in a model, but almost never is. All too often it's a Campfire-in-the-Caboose look.
Variable-voltage (conventional) control reduces the glare.
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