I just received the 6-25616 UP two car add on passenger sets,two of them,three of the four cars did not light up.Have any forumites had this problem.I have had lots of problems with Lionel engines out of the box but never passenger cars.When will lionel start doing quality control,with Atlas entry into the passenger car market at the same price and more detail Lionel better wake up.
Mikey
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I had this problem and it turned out to be a loose ground wire. There should be a wire that is attached to the bottom of the car. If the screw is too loose, the painted surface will prevent a good connection.
Mike
Do the Lights have a on off switch?
Yep -- I had a similar problem with the 6-25600 and 6-25605 Canadian Pacific passenger cars. On one, the ground wire connection was bad like DC Mike described. I used a little bit of 400 grit sandpaper to remove some of the black paint, and tightened the screw, and that solved the problem.
One of the other passenger cars was much tougher to fix. The light was very intermittent -- flashing on and off a lot while rolling down the track. After lots of testing with my multimeter, I finally determined that there was a bad electrical connection between the two parts of the sprung truck sides in both the front and rear trucks. Evidently they were painted too well, and so I wasn't getting a good ground from the car body to the wheels and track. I had to do some significant dis-assembly and carefully scrape some paint in hidden areas of the truck sides, but after doing so the light in that car is now fine.
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