New BNSF ES44AC Premier making clicking noise

It is fairly typical especially with Fastrack.  I have Fastrack.  Sometimes the center rail transitions vary in height quite a bit and that will cause it (or exacerbate it).  But yes, some engines are worse than others.  Make sure you put some oil on the little pick-up roller axles as well as the springs on the pick-ups.  Anything that moves.

That sounds like pickup rollers to me as well. I have engines that do same thing on my FasTrack. @MikeH is on target with the oiling. If you have conductive oil you can put a coat on the roller as well to smooth that out.

Dito to the above and also when your looking at those pick up rollers, make sure the arms that hold the rollers didn't get bent, causing a twist or tilt to the roller. I've found them like that from when the engine is pushed down into the Styrofoam carton during packaging.

@BNSF-Matt posted:

That sounds like pickup rollers to me as well. I have engines that do same thing on my FasTrack. @MikeH is on target with the oiling. If you have conductive oil you can put a coat on the roller as well to smooth that out.

Well...I took a close look at the rollers, and there's def no clicking coming from them.  Id like to take the shell off the engine to take a closer look inside.  Will that void my warranty?

@gwoods27 posted:

Well...I took a close look at the rollers, and there's def no clicking coming from them.

I doubt you would be able to tell. The clicking is not coming from the rollers themselves but from the rollers rolling over the center rail transitions at their joints. The bottom of your locomotive has probably at least 4 rollers if not 6  so that would make the clicking pretty constant going along the tracks like it sounds in your video. Maybe you are correct that that is not the issue but it sure sounds like it. Fastrack is very loud especially on hard surfaces with no sound dampening. I have Fastracks and MTH Reatrax and the MTH track seems to be much quieter.

Brad

@gwoods27 posted:

Well...I took a close look at the rollers, and there's def no clicking coming from them.  Id like to take the shell off the engine to take a closer look inside.  Will that void my warranty?

Did you oil everything?

@MikeH posted:

Did you oil everything?

Oiling the Rollers did the trick!

Thanks Mike!