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You can use the CW-80 just fine.  After putting a known good battery in the locomotive, put a lighted caboose or passenger car on the track with the locomotive.  Now when you power up to under 10 volts it will cycle out of reset when you push the direction button.  The lighted car is the key to get PS-1 locomotives to work flawlessly with the CW-80, and the CW-80 is an excellent transformer to run those locomotives with.  I'm able to run them nice and slow with the CW-80 over any other transformer I have used.