Jerry, Thank you! I do the same, turn off the sound. As much as sound has made a significant improvement in my enjoyment of model trains from my HO and N scale days, I like to turn it off again too and I just get the sound of cars going over the track joints.
This topic has motivated me to spend part of this rainy day ripping out the offending second track on the two walls with jogs and reallign some of the remaining GarGraves. I'll post more when I get a train back running.