Gentlemen: The saga continues this morning on my Mohawk Cruise "M" install. I swapped in a new Cruise "M" board using the advice in this Post. I have seen no issues with shorts this time; I set Feature code "4" for steam with smoke. The engine Railsounds works normally and I can fire the tender coupler and reverse direction (as noted by the tender backing-light. I still have no motor response in either direction.
From reading the Cruise"M" instructions, it appears to me that I'm not getting the correct serial data needed to make this engine operate. I have attached a picture in the area of the Cruise"M" J1 connection to the Motherboard J7 connection; does this look correct? I should note that as the engine was built by Lionel, there was yellow 5VDC wire in the hole above the green wire in the picture the Cruise "M" J1 connector, pin #1.
Otherwise, the blue wire in Cruise"M" J4, pin 1 is soldered directly to the R2LC's pin 24
The green wire and black wire pictured just loop from one connection to the other. The wire in the upper J7 pin with red tracer goes to the IR tether.
