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I have a CNW legacy Dash 9. It has been running fine for several years. Yesterday I had my neighbors seven year old twins over. Each had their own CAB and ran on separate loops. After about 10 minutes, the dash 9 suddenly would only run very slowly. I traded CAB's without any change. I then did a reprogramming to restore features. But the dash 9 continued to crawl along. The GE hybrid that the other twin was running ran normally. 

Any ideas on what happened?

Any ideas on what I can do to resolve the problem?

 

Shane

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Check and make sure this button isn't highlighted...

Speed Limit

or on a Cab1

Address the engine.

Press SET, headlight will flash. Get
your locomotive moving to the maxi-
mum speed you want it to run, press
BOOST. Use this to keep your locomo-
tive from excess-speed derailing. Turn
off the high voltage setting by pressing
SET, then BOOST, holding each for one
second.

 

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I tried everything out that was suggested above.

 

 reprogramming to restore features

I oiled and greased the wheels

both motor/trucks assemblies are running

shut off the speed limit control

with the engine upside down in a cradle both trucks run when power is applied, but very slowly

in fact I can slow the wheels down by just applying a small amount of pressure with my clip.

The break slider is off on both CAB 2s

throughout everything the GE hybrid is running perfectly with both CAB twos.

 

 

Being 89 years old and my hands being somewhat shaky I  did not open the engine. However some younger members of the club will undertake this.

Aside from broken wires, any ideas about what might be wrong internally?

 

Shane

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