K-line amtk 13967 dump car. How to test

There is a hand-held remote that goes with the car,  K-712RC. You would switch one and only one of the A, B, or C up, and then one and only one of the 1 thru 8 up on the car, to set its address. Then on the remove you had to press one of A, B,C, then 1 thru 8, to activate the car. This part I am pretty sure on.

Now the parts I am not sure on. Supposedly the remote did not pass FCC, so when Lionel took over some K-Line manufacturing,  a new remote and new electronics in the cars, and there was no forward or backwards compatibility. Then somehow it moved on to Williams.

The original remote on the K-Line website:

K-Line K-712RC

The K-Line Amtrak dump car:

K-Line K712-1031

The K-Line by Lionel remote:

K-Line by Lionel remote

(can't find a K-Line by Lionel remote dump car at the moment).

The Williams remote:

Williams remote

Wiliams remote control cars (based on K-Line)

Williams remote cars

and as you can see, at least K-line and Williams has a orange Amtrak remote dump car, and you would need to know which one you have. Confused? It gets worse.

I have a bunch of the original K712* and K713* cars, and about half of them would not work with the remote out of the box.

The cars could also be activated by a remote control track, of which many companies make, but its more fun to able to dump the car anywhere on the layout.

The red button is a reset, if the bucket got stuck in the up position (say the power got cut before it could go down), you could reset it then (when the power is back on). It is not like a Lionel  postwar with its stabbing electromagnet, the K-Line uses a small motor to go thru the motion.

Wow!   Thanks Michael.  I have $1 plus shipping invested so far.  It doesn’t sound to promising that I’ll find a remote to even test this.  I’ll look to see what I can pick up

I had a K-Line by Lionel log dumping flatcar with a similar mechanism.  You could activate it with a traditional magnetic uncoupling track as well.  Not sure if that applies to all of them but it's likely far easier to do that than come up with the correct remote.

Jake

Tried that.  Nothing happened when it was magnet was in middle.  I got a grinding sound towards an end.  I’ll test this further.