I have a brand new, just out of the box, rectifier locomotive. Regardless of load or speed or direction, the second truck that goes the turnout jumps the track.  This is with any radius turnout.  The first truck makes the second truck doesn’t.  It’s almost as if the first truck pushes the switch back to straight causing the second truck to head in a different direction.   I run every other locomotive I have through the switches without issue.  This occurs with any switch.   Any thoughts as to the cause of this?


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Thanks for the reply.  Here’s the thing...if I physically turn the train around on the track so the rear truck is first through the switch, the results are the same.  The second truck will not go through the switch. The first truck regardless if it is the rear or front slides through the following truck will not. I have tried this locomotive on multiple switches and this always happens.  No other locomotive has an issue with the switches so I have concluded it’s something with the locomotive.

The locomotive is...

Lionel #6-82179 Pennsylvania LionChief Plus E33 Rectifier Electric Locomotive #4466


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There is a straight before one of the switches.  The switch seems to be physically pushed by the wheels of the locomotive.  No other locomotive had an issue with any of the switches.  The locomotive seems to run smoothly through the switches that follow the curve of the track.

I did as you suggested.  It seems that the wheels are too close together.  The set through the switch pushes the switch a little and then the second truck rolls over the rail and off the track.


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