April 22nd

I have spent a couple of hours (at least!) trying to get a third Peco P11 surface mounted point motor to work on the layout! I should say, that the previous two I have used have worked without incident and I am very happy with them.
But, as you can see from the images and the chunks missing from the corkboard - this most recent addition was a total flop! It just kept randomly jamming. Click, click -BUZZ! Click, click, click -BUZZ! BUZZ! Click, click etc... In fact I even went to my local model shop and bought a fourth motor and tried that! No better.
I can only assume that it is a question of position, as I can categorically say that this particular motor has been placed in all possible sites around the set of points to varying degrees of success. The one position in which it worked and didn't jam up? - SMACK where I want my siding to go.
Something about them, in my experience today, seems to make them only work when they are situated to the left of a set of points....
As it is, the whole battle really was just a matter of principle - as I already have a hole made in the baseboard for an underneath-mounted motor. I was just seeing if I could save myself the effort, how wrong I was!