I have a few of these. They are touchy. I had to take them apart and put some conductive grease on the contacts for the frog polarity to get them...
By my calculations 9 degrees would be 2 inches out on the bottom, 2.02 on the ramp.
A big thanks to all who responded to this post. I was finally able to get the trucks apart and cleaned. This has helped a lot. Also I have it...
The decoder is fine, I think. I got the loco new in 2016 and it sat in the closet until last year. My problems were: 1) In my opinion it was...
Thanks, Some very good tips here. It is a total loss of power, lights included. I have lost one of the bearing blocks in the carpet, So when I get...
Yes, The only thing I did not do is disassemble the trucks and clean the contacts there. I am still figuring out how to get them apart. I did soak...
So I have this locomotive from my original Atlas trainman trainset. I have added a digitrax DN163A4 decoder. I have to say it runs bad. Noisy,...
On my locomotives there is a button F6 or F7 that enables yard mode and slows them down quite a bit.
