I have a 0-4-0 (Gloria) engine (has a small tender) that I picked up on the forum.
I also was running this on Fast track .
When I first ran it (over the Holidays), I ran it with out the tender and it was very erratic, cleaned the track and bottom of the engine and it still the same.
I put the tender on and tried (no electrical pickups on the tender, just a tender light with a two wires to the engine) and it ran fine.
My ETS products have knuckle couplers (Lionel type) and 4-wheel trucks. You may want to add a car behind to see if this helps.
After that, the only problem that I had was the reversing of the engine.
Using a CW80 transformer it would ever go into reverse when throttaling on and off.
Disconnected the track power from the transformer and put it back on and this cause the engine to reverse.
Since this is a electronic forward/reverse switch (no neutral), the transformer may never go to zero volts and there may be a voltage still applied to the track when the throttle is off. Maybe a DC offset?
When I get a chance I will try it with a postwar transformer.
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