Note: Please advise if I'm in the wrong forum for this question.
I beg for your mercy as I'm a newbie (got my first train set in 30+ years in December - used PolEx).
I was doing a local pick-up of an ebay transaction (MTH billboard) and the seller offered me a RailKing Denver-Rio Grande 4-6-2 Pacific Steamer (PS1) while there. The seller was very nice but admittedly not into trains at all. He just buys collections at estate sales and sells stuff piece by piece. The loco was super clean but he warned me that it was a return due to the sound not working. Still, for the price, it was too tempting. Note that this is my first time even seeing a PS1 loco.
My "layout" is a loop of Fastrack on the living room carpet (from the PolEx) powered by a Z-1000 I got here on OGR. I let it charge in neutral for 30 min or so in case the battery was dead. The headlight was on while doing this. I then pressed the direction button and the train moved just fine. It reversed fine as well. I pressed the whistle and that worked. Pressing the bell button, however, did nothing. I looked in the manual and tried to understand how it was saying to do reset #18 (reset to default). I did the repeated raising and lowering of the track voltage but it seems to have done nothing (I didn't hear the "clink, clink" sounds the manual describes).
I've done a bit of reading this afternoon and I saw recommendations to put in a new battery as soon as you buy an old PS1. Too late for that I guess! Based on what I've described, is there something more I can do to reset to default or do I need to find someone with a full DCS set-up (which I also read about)?
Many thanks,
James