I haven't had a chance to try anything but for us the problem definitely seemed like it was with the 6 larger wheels. The entire engine is rattling and shaking at times, and you can hear it hitting ties or something on Atlas Code 55 flex track whereas the cars behind it run smooth as silk at all...
How would you go about fixing this? The flange is what we thought the problem was when we examined the train to see what was going on. We are still somewhat new to all of this.
My Atlas 2-6-0 Northern Pacific mogul does not appear to be running very well on my Atlas code 55 track. It is extremely noisy, sounding as if it is hitting the ties, and pushing the cars (with low profile wheels that I installed) on the track by themselves yields a totally smooth noise free...
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My brother and I are working on 1890's era mining town and we have a section where we had planned on putting in a rather large trestle bridge. Now this layout is sort of a "fantasy" layout in that we are not trying to recreate any real tracks or cities etc. We haven't done...
My brother and I are working on an old west layout and love the old trains with the big smokestacks like the 4-4-0 Jupiter locomotive. However it appears the ones available are not what we are looking for really. We are trying to find something pretty high quality and professional looking but I...