Guys, Thank you for the great advice- it is much appreciated! I opened the shell this morning and poked around inside, at first I did not see anything out of the ordinary, checked and reset all the connections then got out my magnifying glass and and looked a little harder, still nothing. As I was about to close it up I looked at the wires going to the DCS/DCC switch, they looked fine until I took a closer look at them. They were never connected ,no solder, no stripping, just put in the hole for the attach point for the switch. Not only one wire but both! I turned the locomotive upside down and verified this in fact was the switch they were going to and it was, but there were only two wires not three. The power in (center) and the fwd pole. The aft pole which is the DCC pole I could not find a wire leading to that at all. I guess when you shut off DSC, DCC takes over automatically? I don't know. Never the less I connected both wires to the switch, placed the shell back on and the engine came to life in DCS. The remote now see's it and for the most part it operated the way it should. I say for the most part because I can only hope I did not miss anything else while I was in there. This "mistake" if you will was camouflaged pretty good. The engine was new, never used, first owner me, oh well. I caught it. While I was in there I noticed no mechanism for raising and lowering the pantographs. While I was searching for a cause to this problem, I found a post that addressed this. Thank God or I would have been on another wild goose chase. I read the manual at least 6-7 times for the original problem and read how the pantographs work, I was really excited to see this , but when I opened the shell I said no way do they have micro motors in here anywhere, what am I missing? Oh well.
I want to thank all of you for the suggestions and help with this. I went through each and everyone's suggestions and I take each and every one's suggestion very seriously. If I am going to ask for assistance then I am going to try every suggestion you guys and girls put out, after all how can I know THAT'S not the problem when I don't know what the problem is. I also have Barry's Book on the way so that should help a lot. Once again thanks for all the assistance!
