Is it really just a matter of slowing down when going down a grade or what? Luckily I tried my old locomotive first so my new one didn't go flying off the table like the old one did. It bent the cow catcher and lost the back set of wheels!
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Depends on how fast you engine is making the decent. I use an isolated section on the downside that feeds from the main track through a 1 ohm 10 resistor. It drops the voltage enough to really slow down the engine. No derails yet.
Either slow down or put one of these where the train has issues.
rattler21 posted:How steep is the grade and is it straight or are there curves where the engine derails? John
I'm coming down from a 6-inch drop. It takes a 90º down two sections of 10 inches, 90º again. It's a reversing loop, so it goes down one time, and up the next time.
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