My mth 44 tonner might have been a one off. However, it exhibited the same symptoms as have been described on this thread - stalling then shutting down going through certain curves and the curved part of my switches. However, i noticed it would only happen going in one direction. Removing the shell (not an easy task trying not to bend the rails), I observed that when the trucks went through a concave shaped curve in the direction that caused my engine to stall, one wire to a motor was too short and was pulling when the truck turned and causing my engine to stop. Soldering on some more wire and carefully applying some additional solder to the place where that wire attached to the engine cured my stopping while going through certain curves and switches. It’s been about 3 months of good usage doing switch work around my layout and I haven’t had any more problems with this engine. All of the prior areas where’s it stalled are now passed with ease. Again, this may have been unique to my engine, but you may want to try running it with the shell off and seeing if the same thing is happening on your engine.
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