B6sb (Legacy) Will not reset

The hole in the drawbar used has no bearing on what you are experiencing.

 

It sounds like some connection is either loose in the locomotive or you've had a board failure.  Short of taking it apart, I don't see how you're going to diagnose this.  FWIW, the locomotive should run without the tender, though I suspect it'll have the same issue.

 

when a tmcc or legacy engine starts in conventional mode and your legacy system is in working order there is an issue with the antenna.  this is because Lionel has programed tmcc and legacy engines to always look for the signal.

6-82307  Pennsy

It has handrail antenna, is one "grounded out" from handling?

Gunrunnerjohn, your suggestion to run the engine w/o the tender gave me an idea. I did just that and reprogrammed it. W/o the tender attached it acted as it should. I reprogrammed it then attached the tender after placing it in Run mode and powered up the track.  It runs perfectly now. Of course, I don't know for sure if reprogramming w/o the tender was the fix, or if in reattaching the tender I seated the tether correctly, but in any event it runs fine. I never would have tried the tender only approach had you not suggested it. Thanks. Thanks to all for the quick help.  it's such sweet little thing, I really didn't want to have to part with it. 

Glad it worked out for you.  It's looking like maybe something with the tether, or maybe it was just the phase of the moon.

 

Hah. I like blaming it on the moon and not my fat fingers!  Have a good one. Now on to my next issue: engines derailing going through a command switch...there's always "another one!"

There's a reason for that as well, I have a few switches that I've "tweaked" to fix that.  The switch rail doesn't seat properly against the outside rail and the wheel picks the switch and some of the wheels try to go straight.  On mine, it only happens on the "out" or curved path.  Tweaking the end of the switch rail to lay against the outside rail better seems to be the solution.

 

Thanks. That tweak worked. (Very important to me because  it was a LionChief+ engine that was most susceptible and that's what my Grandson runs...) I found a Youtube video demonstrating the fix. I just followed Sean's lead and it worked like a charm.  If only Lionel could bring all production back to the States...ahem.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvcxr9BURA  

 

That looks like what I do.

 

Do think it would be useful to open a new topic "Derailing Command Switches" and summarize our string and add the link to the YouTube video?

Somewhere there was a thread on the topic.  I think unless they end up in some tips thread that is featured they scroll into oblivion pretty quickly.

 

OK. Back to laying track. Have a good one.

ToledoED,

    Guns to the rescue again!  Glad everything worked out for you.

PCRR/Dave

Thanks. He is a sharpshooter for sure.