Train Nut posted: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.
Poster says in first post its a "grinding / grating" sound. Certainly is described as, and sounds to me personally like a gear issue in the video. Now the poster changes his original words to say it "definitely sounds like an electrical issue" ??? In my experiences electrical problems don't sound like that and happen at the same spot all the time. Gear issues do. Again i told him what it sounded like to me, not that it was definitely the problem! So why dont you stop trying to stir things up....
If you can find the precise word(s) to describe that sound, I'd be more than happy to use it. I honestly don't know what the issue is.
