@Putnam Division posted:That is because I never listed the problem here.....I just dealt with it.
I new there was something bad immediately....when I put power to the track, the engine turned on for a about 5 seconds and fired the rear electrocoupler. It would only come up in TMCC mode...and, could not be reprogrammed out of ID#1.
No fan driven smoke, just whistle steam. Then, no smoke and a blinking cab light signifying a bad heating element.
In addition, the front steps on the R side were detached from the cow-catcher area.
Peter
WOW!!!!!
I seem to recall about the time you posted that your wife bought this engine another forum member posted he had problems right out of the box. And as I recall he listed some of the same things! I am trying to find this post but the forum will not let my new iMac to access the "search" function.
Things at Lionel sure are NOT the same post Mike Reagan
Will have to give buying this some second thoughts even though Concord is less than 30-miles south of me.
Ron
