pickups on mth

You may have several options:

• If these are single pickup rollers, call MTH and talk to Tech Support to see if there are replacement dual pickup rollers available for your engine.
• The second possibility for single pickup rollers is reversing the direction of one or both of the pickup rollers by 180 degrees. This was the solution I used for my Premier Bi-Polar. It would stall on my back-to-back Ross switches. The pickup rollers pointed towards the middle of the engine. Reversing them so they pointed the opposite way solved the problem completely.
• A third option that may be a possibility is tethering the engine to a following car with pickup rollers. I did this with a BMT Standard subway set, connecting a Hot wire between the powered unit and the following lighted subway car.
• If this is a steam locomotive, you may be able to mount a pickup roller on one of tender's trucks. This worked for me with a RK Imperial K4, using a spare pickup roller from a K-Line caboose.

this is a premier engine genesis with 2 pickups maybe i will try to turn 1 by 180degrees and see what happens

ok scratch the turn the pickups around they are in a well and it will not sit right so try something else

any one with any ideas its only this engine because of the distance between rollers

Does the set include a non-powered dummy?

If so you can run a power jumper between the two units like Barry B. suggested.

I solved a similar situation with an AA set doing this.

Rod

i had some one suggest to take a thin piece of copper and glue it to the frog point to extend the power by 1/2 inch does any one think this would short out anything if i did this

I have this locomotive and it stop going thru the Ross custom double crossover, my solution was to add a third Lionel roller that I bought years ago in one of those train shows, I bond it or glue it with crazy glue and of course, run a little piece of flexible wire from this new roller to the other ones and problem solve, my locomotive runs very slow thru the double crossover like a charm.

Actually there are two other fixes.  A local O-Gauger  had the same problem with his Atlas diesel on Atlas switches.  You can just run that engine FASTER through that switch combination.  Or add a small (smallest) necessary piece of track section between switches.

These situations are obviously why all the toy train makers have added pickup-rollers.

ok all fixed i put a 1 inch piece of track in between the switches