I got the track and the Locomotive from my daughter (this train is for my 5 yr. old grandson) and hooked everything up according to the directions this morning, and although the train runs, I cannot control it at all with the hand held CAB-1 unit.
The locomotive is a 2000 ATSF Railway ALCO PA-1 Diesel locomotive. Says it is Command Equipped with signal sounds. Number 6-18952
The "U" post on the TMCC TrainMaster Base (center in above picture) is jumped to the "U" post on the PM-1 PowerMaster (left in the above photo) which is then connected to the outside rail. The "A" post is connected to the center rail. I have connected the large transformer (right side of above picture) with it's special plug to the PowerMaster (left) and my home-made and hopefully correctly grounded wall wart to the TMCC.
The CAB-1 has fresh batteries
Do you suppose that my ground jumped wall wart is not grounded? I jumped from the ground output to the barrel of the plug.
As mentioned above, the train will run, but it will not accept any direction from the handheld CAB-1. When I depress any buttons or keys on the CAB-1, there is flashing of the lights on top of the TMCC and PM-1, so it seems like they are getting signal from the CAB-1.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Robert
