I recently purchased a bachman 2-8-4 Berkshire steam locomotive that DCC and Sound equipped.

I am running Atlas Code 80 track with an 11" radius.

When I run the locomotive through a curve it will lose tracktion about half way through the curve. It looks like the wheels on the locomotive lift up off the track and cause the locomotive to stall.

I didn't see any where in the bachman information that this tight a turning radius would be an issue.

Any suggestions. I love this locomotive and really want to make it work.

Bachman item number 50953.

I got a Bachmann Spectrum N scale EM-1 2-6-6-4 locomotive for Christmas. Before I could even get a chance to program it the family cats decided to have some fun with it. I tried to get it working myself and got it to program (according to my Digitrax Zephyr) but could not get it to run.

I sent it back to Bachmann and paid for the repair and put it back on the programming track and got it to accept the address (again according to my DCC system). I put it back on the main line set the address and tried to get the loco to move with no success. I cannot get the lights to work...nothing.

I have three other DCC locomotives one of which is a spectrum product. They all run on the main line just fine.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there some trick that I'm missing?

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.