... and I really like it. It's a B&O NW2 Switcher. Timing the coupler crashes to the magnet ramps and the like is a whole new world of play for me. It looks like I'll be hooked on Q sound, now.
BUT HERE's THE PROBLEM.... :cry:
I plowed ahead with my first layout, (a little over a year ago) and my trackwork is fair to good. I've been running Atlas Geeps and Athrean Rolling Stock at a 91% success rate. That means that in the course of 100 individual operations, I have a derailment caused by either a mechanical or operator error nine times. I keep stats. I can live with 91%.
Unfortunately, it seems the BLI switcher is too light/delicate for my trackwork, and it derails often, especially around the turnouts that everything else that travels across my layout can handle. I use code 100. I've examined the wheels on my new BLI switcher, and the cross section of the wheel looks different than what my Atlas locos have. The (flange?) of the wheel seems thinner? and maybe the part of wheel that contacts the rail a little flatter?
Anyway,
Should I expect the BLI to be fussier?
Should I expect switchers in general to be fussier?
Can I do anything, short of repairing and replacing track to help this situation?
Are those wheels different, and maybe designed for code 83?
Anything else I should know? Should try?
Thanks in advance,
BUT HERE's THE PROBLEM.... :cry:
I plowed ahead with my first layout, (a little over a year ago) and my trackwork is fair to good. I've been running Atlas Geeps and Athrean Rolling Stock at a 91% success rate. That means that in the course of 100 individual operations, I have a derailment caused by either a mechanical or operator error nine times. I keep stats. I can live with 91%.
Unfortunately, it seems the BLI switcher is too light/delicate for my trackwork, and it derails often, especially around the turnouts that everything else that travels across my layout can handle. I use code 100. I've examined the wheels on my new BLI switcher, and the cross section of the wheel looks different than what my Atlas locos have. The (flange?) of the wheel seems thinner? and maybe the part of wheel that contacts the rail a little flatter?
Anyway,
Should I expect the BLI to be fussier?
Should I expect switchers in general to be fussier?
Can I do anything, short of repairing and replacing track to help this situation?
Are those wheels different, and maybe designed for code 83?
Anything else I should know? Should try?
Thanks in advance,