Originally Posted by TomlinsonRunRR:
Also, Carl when you say that you believe the two collectors on the MTH should be far enough apart that the plastic spot on the cross shouldn't matter, does that mean that the rear one is in play even going forward? Based on looking at the undersides of both engines, I just assumed they were directional - the front one for the positive connection forward, the rear one for the positive connection moving backward.
The two pickup rollers are intended to be wired together internally. One of them rolling across an insulator (especially a 90-degree crossing) shouldn't stop the locomotive.
---PCJ