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Thanks, yes cleaned all the track, the wheels are spotless as have cleaned them and the pickups, and tested other loco’s round the track, those work fine. I have quite a lot of drop wires installed and also test the track with a voltmeter to check voltage coming through ok

Hi all,

I'm sure this is a common problem, but I have a couple of DCC loco's that need a push/ nudge to get them moving. Once they move they run lovely, so I cant see that it's dirty track.

One example I have is a N gauge, Graham Farish Class 03.

What I have done is...

Fully stripped down the ...

Thanks for all of the comments, will bear all of these in mind. I have about 10 older locos some from my child hood, so would like to just clean these up and run as DC, I don't think it's worth trying to convert, and a lot of these dont have many pickups anyway. I will just literary be running one ...

Sorry, after replying I got what you meant, the DPDT switch, basically sits inbetween both the controllers. Doh. Thanks Again

Many thanks for the reply. So put the dpdt switch on the dc controller wire inbetween the dc controller and the track? Other than that, I have no dcc controlled accessories. All my points are controlled via the dc accessories port.

Richard

Hi All.

Just want a bit of advice before I start this little project. Attached an image of my plan layout. At the moment it is fully DCC, but I would like to be able to run the older DC loco's on this. I was going to convert some, I have done some, but realise they dont really run that great, and ...

Thanks, I suspect it perhaps might have been a small unit that
Made these. I going to get a bit of spare track and try and figure it out. I’m up for the challenge

Hi , thanks I think I will be able to figure it out, but have done quite a lot of searching and not found anything like it as yet.

Hi,

I recently purchased this on Ebay, it's a Rolling Road kit, sadly no instructions with it, the seller had this passed to them in an N gauge bundle. Has anyone come across anything like this before, and if so, would they no of any instructions? They said that they would take them back, but give ...

Many thanks, the track is very clean, but I have been suspecting it's short circuiting and sending it mad, so you may have just confirmed it for me.