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Tom is definitely pointing you in the right direction. If I may add to his advice, take your track apart and clean the connectors and rails with denatured Alcohol. As you stated they have been used before.

Also clean you wheels and pick up rollers dirty contacts and rails will act like a dropping resistor to your voltage.

O-gauge trains may take AC from the transformer but it gets converted in the engine to DC to drive the motors. This is true for all modern engines.

In the Post War Lionel they did use AC motors in the engines. The arcing of the brushes created the ozone smell that brings such found memories back to us older kids.

IN short Bill, have fun. There is much to be learned about our hobby and on this site there are plenty who love to share their knowledge.

Please keep us posted on how your layout develops.   

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