Just wondering who else has engines that are happy with whatever track conditions are, then have one or more that refuse to play nice and want the track cleaned before its happy.
Had a buddy stop by, wanted to see them run. Diesel and its freight runs just fine. "You have a steam as well right?" Eh, we can try, its a pain sometimes. Made it 3/4 of the layout, then stopped, along with shutdown sound sequence. Give track a lil spit shine.... Ok, ill work for you now.
I just cleaned the track few weeks ago, along with wiping down all the truck wheels and pickups on the engine. But as usual, diesel runs with no issues... steam has to run a few laps, then smooths out. Dont have flicker passenger cars anymore as ive converted them over to LED with John's capacitor circuit boards. But steamer still finds the spots its not happy with.
Just curious if anyone else has to go through this process with any engines.
