I completed my new Christmas layout pretty much on Christmas Eve. I used a combination of Gargraves track, switches and a couple of Ross curved switches. The Ross switches are on the main line for the bigger stuff where the minimum track diameter is O54. The Gargraves switches are all O42 on an inside loop. The inside loop was designed for lower end stuff, older Lionel General Christmas engine, my Grandson's Thomas and friends collection, etc. I wired the Gargraves O42 switches for anti-derailing to make it more kid friendly and save my fuse budget. The problem I am having is with many of the smaller engines, they seem to loose the outside rail connection as they are going through the switch and stop. I think it has to do with the placement of the traction tires on the engines and the Gargraves switch having a plastic frog. Does anyone have experience with this? Advise on fixing the issues? At this point I am considering going back to FasTrack for the inner loop just to get the reliability back. I do like the fact that the Gargraves is significantly quiter than the FasTrack though. But the kid doesn't care about the noise, he just wonders why Percy will run on the layout and Thomas won't...
Tony
