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John

By no means did you come off as a 'Richard'.  I too wish to say the same thing to you regarding my reply.  Your intent was not taken harshly, and my reply was simply to let anyone trying to help me out know, that when it comes to Model Railroading, I am as green as a golf course fairway.  But, as my mother used to say, and said just last Thursday, John, (my name is John as well), you can do anything you set your mind too and if you are interested in it, you will learn it.  She then went on to say, now take an interest in my yard and go mow.

In regards to the Lion Chief engine, that issue was more related to why the coupler side of the buttons didn't work.  I have since learned that the reason the front coupler won't fire is due to an important visual issue.  There is no front coupler on this engine.  As to the why's and why not's of the rear coupler at the back of the tender not firing, so what.  It's an elevated oval with only one starting location that becomes it's final location.  There are no side tracks to leave the rolling stock and move on, so why would I want to uncouple the cars and have the engine complete the circle by crashing into the caboose.

As for the rest, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your explanations as to how old and new transformers work.  I also realized that if any of this stuff ever stops working correctly, I have a ton of money in shipping involved to either send the TIU to MTH to have it inspected and repaired, same goes for the transformer, or I can just go into debt and buy a new TIU.

My problem is that I don't have any train stores close that I can go pick someone's brain and learn hands on what you took the time to tell me.  NASCAR was easy.  Watch the races, learn the lingo, become familiar with the driver's, and like Harley-Davidson's, get interested about the time both phenomenon's hit a major boom in sales and fan interest.  I picked exactly the right time to buy a Harley, and exactly the right year to get interested in NASCAR.  Television shows and documentary's were all over the air waves, Harley's were a waiting list that never ended, everyone rode bikes so finding a group to ride with was no problem, and you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a stock car fan.

Trains, Railroads, Model Trains, NASCAR, and Harley's all have a common theme.  I got into them for all the wrong reasons, and wound up making a wonderful mistake.  Heck, the whole reason I joined the Guard was for the wrong reason and even that wound up a wonderful mistake.  If I ever write a book, I'll title it, Me: Life's wonderful mistake. 

But this forum isn't about me or my wonderful mistakes, it's about asking for help with an issue regarding conventional and Lion Chief engines.  Help that I have more than gotten thanks to you and everyone else who has taken the time to read these mini-novels and answer the call.  I've been reluctant to read other threads on other forums because I fear I think I know what I am doing, but do not wish to mess someone up telling them the wrong or better yet, the uneducated information.  I just know what worked for me and what appears to be working now since it hasn't broken.

Thanks John. 

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