Ok, I’m coming back to this post with a tangential issue/question about the beeps. I am busily working on my new layout but sometimes… you just want to run something. So in addition to my christmas oval (o54 curves) I built a small test oval (o31 curves) to test cars as I fix them and mess with various accessories, etc. as I plan the new layout. Anyhow, getting bored with just and oval I added a figure 8 to give some visual interest for when the grandkids kids are in the shop with me. I had run all the post war stuff on it and one of the kids saw my two beeps and wanted to see them run. I had previously run them on the o31 oval with the Z (noted previously) and it ran great set at 10v. Anyhow, I ran the beep first around the oval (so passing over the turnouts but going straight) and there was some sparkage which surprised me. I thought maybe it was the short wheel base (really short distance between the two pick ups?). Then I attempted to run it through the figure 8 and got SHOCKING sparkage thrown out several inches from the track. Thinking it was that one turn out I tried the other 3 and got the same. These are the standard Lionel O27 manual turn outs ( 6-5021 and 6-5022). The beep either does not cross it at all or crosses with huge sparkage. After taking it off the track out of concern that the engine would be damaged I tried to change the switch back to the oval and found that they were hard to switch… as if it had even slightly melted the plastic. WOW. Does anyone else run their beeps on tubular track and if so do you use lionel turn outs? Help please… there is no point in keeping these if I can’t run them on my track.
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