Lionel C&O Allegheny Shorting

Just a thought; have you tried the tender separately, and then the engine separately? Maybe there is an internal short from a loose/pinched wire in one or the other pieces.

Hi! tried the tender by itself - it does not produce a short.  

hclarke posted:

Hi! tried the tender by itself - it does not produce a short.  

I would think that the next step would be to try the engine by itself. Then, maybe both the engine and tender, but do NOT hook the drawbar up.

Good idea!   Any other suggestions, folks?

Smoke unit on or off?  There have been issues with the resisitors shorting out on the smoke unit bowl on other Lionel steamers.

My Lionel Legacy C&O Allegheny #1604 is at Lionel today for shorting out my ZW-L three times.  It is an intermittent problem occurring on a curve usually.  It might be a pinched wire.  I have had pinched wires in several engines sent back to Lionel this year.  Allegheny, AC-12, M1a, two Sound station diners.  The GG1 was a broken wire. I guess that doesn't count.  Ask Lionel to send you a UPS call tag. My two Allegheny engines #1604 and 1601 have been at Lionel since January 23, 2017.

Your list of new locomotives returned to Lionel is amazing!  The $2000 Alleghenies should have better quality control.  I am rethinking getting an AC9.

Do you have any form of TMCC/Legacy and have you tried it? Other than what HW said I would say send it to a repair center or Lionel and get it fixed 

Yes, I have Lionel's legacy system.  It does look like there is a quality control problem with Alleghenies.   It would be interesting to find out how many other people have had problems with their Legacy Alleghenies.

Just send it back to where you bought it…. I don't get that you would do anything else??Nick

i know this is off the idea but have you seen the Allegheny at the ford museum? i went to see it around new year.

TysTrains posted:

i know this is off the idea but have you seen the Allegheny at the ford museum? i went to see it around new year.

Yep its un real man.

hclarke posted:

Yes, I have Lionel's legacy system.  It does look like there is a quality control problem with Alleghenies.   It would be interesting to find out how many other people have had problems with their Legacy Alleghenies.

 

I was another one. Two back to back warranty repairs after being on the layout no more than 10 minutes each time it came back out of the box.  Mine had a bad board the first time. (stuck in conventional, no Legacy control).  When it came back there was surging at slow speeds and a couple other minor issues.  Smoke switch was broken off 2 times after receiving new and from once warranty repair after being stated it was replaced.  No biggie for me I use remote for that function. One of the thin, small side roads was twisted too.  That's all I can recall without looking through the letters I wrote up for Lionel's repair department.

Been running it a bit since it came back into my possession for the third time lol.  Everything has been fine and no issues finally.