My MTH Gs4 locomotive is very temperamental when running on my modular club’s layout. Admitedly, the track is rough with lots of 6" connectors between modules and old style Atlas switches. After running for awhile, the locomotive apparently decides it’s been “insulted” and refuses to run any longer. It will sit there and go through all the start up sound cycles in DC mode but then it refuses to budge. Repeated efforts to get it going get the same result, no forward movement. When I take it home and put in on my layout, it operates normally. Any ideas out there as to what’s with this handsome but temperamental brute?
Maybe somethings getting a little warm after running for a while. By the time you get home it has cooled down enough to run well again. Your clubs power supply may be putting out something that the electronics or motor in your loco doesn’t like. Does it run for the same amount of time on your layout. I would be careful. Rough trackwork may cause derailments but not keep the loco from moving.
Take it home, pack it up, ship it out to MTH and let them know that this is unacceptable and require them to fix it.
David B
Before it started acting up like this it once ran continuously for hours on the club layout. Conseuently, I don’t think heating up is the problem. Most likely there’s something keeping it from resetting after a few derailments or jolting on an Atlas switch.
Just my luck it will run fine when they test it and I’ll be out twelve bucks for shipping.