chessie1971 posted:Peter feeder wire is running from your power to your section of track. I would check your wiring could have bad solder joint or wire could be corrded inside or broken inside and i would spray electric contact cleaner to your track joints.I don't believe its your engines being all five doing it. Its in your wiring somewhere and i would hook up temporary wires to that section to power supply see if that helps.
chessie1971 - as I mentioned in my OP, I have electrically isolated track blocks and only one power drop in each block. Forgive my ignorance, but if that one power drop in a given block is not supplying power, then the block is getting zero power. How is it possible for my multimeters (and the DCS data coming from the locomotive) to be showing 18+ volts (and DCS signal strength a perfect 10) and the engine itself deciding to resolve the issue in that same track block - a block with no power? Also, no other locomotive in that same session experiences any problems in that block, nor does that same locomotive (usually) during the next session.
FYI - I checked the solder points throughout and they all look good. All power drops run through the homasote and plywood to a "secure" point that does not allow them to be snagged or pulled, and they are secured all the way to the power board to avoid any kind of internal wire breakage or "flickering" due to being loose.
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