If I may whine - had a PS-2 RK 4-8-2 die on me

Is this the 2010 version?  2.4V battery?  Send me the board set should be able to fix the battery issue.  This should run in DCS though.  Delete from remote and re-add.  Should work though it will not retain settings until the battery circuit is fixed.  I would not give up on this one yet.  G

I have  that loco, an early version (about 2004) with the 5-volt board.  Of a sudden, DCS couldn't find it.  No sound.  Would run in conventional.  Worked on it all day, with advice from a couple of forum gurus, and it's working fine.  Did add engine, recover engine, edit engine ID & location, rename engine, and finally got it to work.Can't pin down the cause for sure, but it may have been a weak battery clip.

I agree with GGG's last sentence.

Give up on it! Sell it to me, cheap!I will give it a good home.

And this is why I like good old dumb Postwar Lionel. Between my laptop, and phone...that's enough tech for me.

I remember when that old dumb Lionel was new.  It had its problems, which taught me how to fix trains.  I still have that old Lionel.  Certainly does not run as well as modern locos.  Depends on what you want your layout to do.  Just like some layouts are a simple loop, to avoid the "complexity" or switches, and give an artist a place to build beautiful scenery.  Other layouts have the entire area covered with track, with no room for scenery.  When you are CEO, engineer, and ROW laborer, you run your railroad the way you want.

Whatever turns you on.

I had forgotten my thread on this...

GGG - it has an 8.4V battery. My "DCS" system is the Remote Commander, so there is no

adding/deleting. The loco used to run under it, but once the battery started going it acted odd in DCS - and wouldn't run in conventional. I'm not really DCS-savvy; most of the stuff

that I run is TMCC/etc. Thanks for the offer, though.

midnightwrecking - ah, thought that you'd pull one over on me, eh? Well, I don't know...it's such a handsome little thing. I do scale, pretty much, but an occasional

Short Stack will follow me home.

I'll keep you in mind.

Edstrains - "...good old dumb Postwar Lionel..." you do know that the word "dumb" is in there, don't you? Most of my electronics stuff - and I have a bunch - just keeps on ticking. (BTW, I just got a nice tenderless - so far - Lionel 1666 2-6-2; I'm not without

appreciation - it's smooth and runs pretty slowly - but most of that stuff was not 

so well-done.)

Yes, seriously, if you do decide to give up on it do keep me in mind.

I recommend moving this to the DCS forum and you will get some better answers.  A dead battery in a DCS PS2 locomotive will not keep it from running.  If you have DCS do a factory reset first. 

Just as an FYI - I did again test this loco in DCS (with a Remote Commander; I do not

have the full DCS setup) and it did, indeed, run just fine. Still no-go in conventional.

I guess that my memory of it not running in DCS either was off.

This gives me one PS2 loco -and- one TMCC loco that will not run in conventional. But, I do command only, pretty much, so I guess that's OK.

Alas, midnightwrecking, I guess that I'll not be selling it just yet...

If the battery is fully charged, you might need to do a conventional reset.  1W and 5B rapidly iaw instructions.  It just may be locked. out.

If you apply power and start it up, than turn power off does it play sounds? If so lockout seems like the issue.  If no sounds, either battery, battery wiring, or a battery circuit issue is preventing conventional ops.  G

Adding to what GGG just said, when you do the conventional reset, be sure there is no DCS signal on the track.  At least that's what MTH told me when teaching me about the conventional reset.

  Hi GGG  George i sent you an  email Alan Mancus,need your help