I agree John! But I don't have any clue what's causing it. I'm thinking at the moment I may need to accept that for an engine of this size and weight I need to level my track better... because I went ahead and shimmed the section of track from the video I took, and it runs fine there now. If I had a permanent layout this would have never been a problem.
I'm wondering if all of Lionel's large articulated engines would be this fussy about track. If this older model is particularly fussy it might make sense to sell this engine to someone who has a table layout.
Does anyone have experience with articulated Lionel steamers acting up on irregular track? I'm particularly curious if the newer Legacy ones do this as well.
