I just built a new small size layout for under our Christmas Tree this year. I have Fastbacks all the way around a oval track. It's powered by a Lionel 180 Power Brick run threw a TPC-300 then to the track. Run with a TMCC. Had no problem running it with the 9 Christmas cars I had hooked up to my Diesel Santa Fe Switcher. My wife bought me 3 new Christmas Display Box Cars that have moving & lighted scenes in them. I hooked them up and ran them for about 5 minutes. I smelled like something was very "HOT"!!! I stopped it. Then tried restarting it. Found that I had a in-line Fast Blow Fuse out. I replaced the fuse. I ran it for just a short time and removed the cars and oiled the wheels. I am going to try them again in the AM. The new box cars have switches on the bottoms of them to turn them off. I just might turn one or two of them off and see what happens. Has anyone else had this problem??? Could it be to much of a overload??? Or another problem??? Thanks TT
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