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Consult the instructions that came with your voltmeter - if you do not you could fry your voltemeter, your transformer, your train or worse - there, I covered my read end.

Set the volt meter dial to an appropriate dc voltage setting (dcv)  - you probably have a choice of something around 20v.  With the transformer on and set to something you think should run the trains, touch the red lead to one track rail and the black lead to the other.  You should see the voltage displayed. If the number is negative, you can switch which rails the red and black are touching.  If you are getting nothing, you have no power to the track.  You can touch the posts on the transformer directly to see if you have power at the transformer and are losing it on it's way to the track.  

Since you say the trains start and slow down - seems like you are getting power to the track and something else is going on.  I'd test both with the engine on and off the track.

If you get a good reading with the engine off the track and the voltage drops or goes to 0 with the engine on the track, your engine has issues.

 

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