Blinking red lights on Legacy Base?

Charger is shot, send it back for repair or just turn it off

Lionel is like FORD was a while back -- Fix Or Repair Daily. 

You actually need two of everything that Lionel sells, one to use while the other is in repair shop.

Ralph

Chris is right, the charging circuit needs to be replaced.  I had to send both of mine in for the upgrade.

It's normal for the lights to be very dim with no remote in the base, I'm thinking that's actually light bleeding in from the other lights in the unit.

The condition where the two red lights come on steady is an error. Both of mine would never complete a charge, but rather always terminate with the dual flashing red lights.

From the Legacy Manual.

that is really un called for. you sound like that person, who I can not name, that used to post nothing but negativity about the lionel legacy system.

FWIW, my TIU is in the MTH shop to fix the missing DCS signal, it's not just Legacy.  

This is one known issue that has plagued the Legacy system, and it's actually pretty easily addressed if you don't want to bother with the recharging.  Uus Alkaline batteries, or for longer life the Lithium ones, and you can also recharge the batteries in an external charger.

Since there is no recharging capability of the MTH DCS remote, I don't see this as a huge issue.  If you do away with charging in the remote, you're no worse off than if you use DCS.