Ray Lombardo posted:Happy to read the above. Don't allow what you read on this forum to make you revert to thinking that any issue is automatically a serious problem. Train layouts require hands-on troubleshooting and in a case like this there are many things that could be at issue prior to immediately suspecting the locomotive has a stripped gear or similar.
I definitely hope it's not a serious issue. Since it happens at specific points on the track, I'm going to (when I have time) take those sections apart and use different FT pieces, and on the back stretch, I will take the elevation away and see if those changes make a difference. If the sound crops up in other places, I'll open her up and see if there is another issue. It certainly sounds electrical in nature (especially at that 1:03 mark), and hopefully it's nothing more than a stray wire or a loose connection somewhere that shouldn't be happening. Fingers crossed!
