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I just purchased a MTH Scale 2-8-0 off of ebay.  The seller said it works fine and had a charged battery.  He had all positive comments.  

 

I put the engine on the track and was able to add it to my DCS remote.  After that I was able to turn the start up sounds on, blow the whistle, but not make it move.  I first though a bad battery.  I let it charge for 10 min or so bu then was not able to get any sounds or movement.  The remote kept saying check track.  I tried doing a factory reset but it wouldn't let me saying to check track.  

 

I replaced the battery with a known good battery.  Still the same thing.  My other PS2 locomotives run fine.  

 

Any suggestions?  I am letting it charge up now and will try again in 20 min.  

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I have the MTH charger and highly recommend getting it if you have more than two MTH PS-2 engines. Charge the engine for 12 to 15 hours with the charger and not track power, as I am afraid of having an engine take off while trying to be charged as FPL has a bad rap for power flucts, maybe it's from the thunderstorms that the voltage drops.

 

Lee F.

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