I hooked up my Zephyr and the DCC loco kept stopping at the same location. Checked the connection, cleaned the track and still no movement. Ran a DC loco on 00 with the Zephyr and it ran fine over the section. Anyone have a solution? I would do a search first but I am clueless as to the key words that would find any other threads addressing this issue.
It’s the track. DCC locos are more sensitive to power dropouts. It’s probably a turnout, right? There are gaps in power coverage on turnouts, particularly the ones with plastic frogs. You may need to investigate the power distribution a bit, and maybe wire in a jumper. Some turnouts have problems with the point rails, too.
Although the track is almost certainly the primary issue, try cleaning the wheels thouroughly. I take a paper towel and moisten it with alchohol. Then I put the towel down on a stretch of straight track, and put one end of the loco on the towel, with the other end on bare track. This lets me run the wheels on the towel, which takes off the crud pretty well.
Typing two words into the search bar “Wont Run” turns up 37 pages of previous posts.
You did not precisely explain your track situation so Im forced to assume you are stalling on a switch with a plastic frog at a very slow speed.
Either that or you are trying to run the choo choo across the house on two wires 60 feet away.
We need more input to help you better.
Actually it is running now and it was not a switch it was a curve with feeders at one end. I rechecked the connection, recleaned the track then ran the loco real slow from the other side of the layout and checked the voltage with a multimeter before the section, after the section and in the section and there was no drop at all. I am chalking it up to electrical gremlins. The loco wheels are fine since it is a new loco, but I am going to file away your wheel cleaning advice for the future.
Thanks.