There's something to be said about "keep it simple stupid". Just spent the evening pulling apart the entire Xmas display's tube track to solve a voltage drop. Turned up to be dirty & corroded pins along with widened ends on the lose fitting rails from years of assembly & disassembly. I guess I had been noticing slowly developing performance problems getting worse every year, but was in denial about until the trains just about stopped running with the throttles pegged. Probably because I knew all too well what a finger chopping ordeal it is to take it all apart & fix the problems. Well, after pulling every pin, cleaning, & crimping, the ol' 2055 is romping around the rails like it was 1954 all over again. If dad was here now, he'd smile proudly & say "See, I told you it was YOUR crapped up old track & not MY engine".....
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