Folks, any suggestions, ideas or solutions will be much appreciated.
- Engine in Question: Lionel 6-38080, TMCC, Western Pacific GS-64, released 2004
- Environment: Running on Lionel 180-Watt Brick; Using a Cab-2 controller to run this engine
- Problem: On 3 separate occasions, I have lost smoke output. The scenario has been the same each time.
- Engine will be running fine without any issues. Smoke output normal.
- A car in the consist will derail causing a short and loss of power to track
- I restart transformer and engine following standard procedure on Cab-2: Engine, Enter Engine ID #, Aux-1.
- Engine restarts but no smoke produced; Fan motor blowing air out and working in sync with engine chuff but no heat being produced
- I replace the heating element with Lionel 8ohm wire wound ceramic called for in this engine; Start engine up again with new element and smoke feature working again;
- Oddly, the in 2 of the 3 instances the resistor I replaced tested fine; Got a 9ohm reading on both; The 3rd instance I couldn't get a stable reading
I'm perplexed as this hasn't happened with any of my other TMCC or Legacy steamers. I sure don't like the idea of having to replace the heating element everytime something derails or causes a short/loss of track power.
Please help. Any thoughts?
