I've been experiencing de railing of various rolling stock going into or out of old vintage 022 switches. The engine is a Lionel Legacy SW8 Conrail #8657, Lionel' number 2133590. The heavier the car (like an old vintage 3472 Automatic Refrigerator Car), the less prone it is to de railing, but if I try to couple up with a lightweight CSX tank car, it will definitely slip off the rails about halfway through the turn, no matter how slow I go. Yet, around the same 031 curves on uninterrupted tubular track, there is no problem. The minimum curve on this Legacy switcher is 031, so it can't be that. It really defeats the purpose of this switcher- getting cars off of my inner track, and moving them to my outer track, or vice versa. I'm stumped. I'm using the old tubular track from Menard's. Could it be this switcher isn't compatible with the old 022 Lionel switches?? I even tried different ones, and tried inserting them on other areas of the track with no joy.
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