I am new to the whole model train hobby. I just got a new Bachmann Liberty Bell Special train set. It worked great out of the box. I decided to add a few things to my track layout. I bought some more EZ track and also bought a Left and Right turn out. I set this up on a piece of 4 x 8 plywood and had an oval and now with the turn outs a circle inside the oval. As soon as I started going around the tracks and playing with the switches on the turn outs I started to get derailments. I tested with cars attached, just engine and tender and Engine by it self. It seemed to be the worse with just the engine and not the tender. On closer inspection and a really slow speed I noticed that the Engine would hover over the tracks and with more speed it would finally continue. Sometimes the engine would even stop and loose power other times it would hover and with more power it would finally move again. I would have to power off and manually back it up then power back on. Once past the new turnouts the train does not seem to have any issues.


Mark