Lionel ZW-1000 and the affects on a MTH Proto 3.0 loco.

Hi Tim

     Is the Galloping Goose a RailKing? When you program the engine with the TMCC, you must tell it that it is DCS. If I remember correctly, this type of question comes up during the program process.

Hope this helps.

Barry or Gun Runner John are the top modelers on this topic.

Gary

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Not to nit pick, but the ZW1000 is an MTH Transformer. As for the RailKing question, yes Galloping Geese are RK. They came either as conventional or PS-2/3. I'm assuming since you're referring to TMCC, you're trying to run in command control. While you can run Lionel TMCC engines with the MTH DCS, you cannot run MTH DCS with TMCC. 

Gunrunner John has done TMCC conversion of 'Geese, but again I'm assuming you do not have one.

The Goose you're talking about is PS/3.  There are a couple reasons why it might stall like that in conventional mode.

Using a conventional transformer, try one whistle and five bells, spaced at 1/2 second intervals.  If you get it right, you'll get two quick toots of the horn.  That may wake it up.

I meant to say run it conventional not Command and it is the older Lionel Transformer. Thanks for correcting me Gilly.

You will need a transformer with both a whistle and bell control to accomplish the conventional reset I described.

It may be locked in neutral.  John has given you the method to unlock it.  But it works best with a pure Sine wave transformer with bell/whistle button as stated.  Not sure which transformer/ controller you are talking about, but typically TMCC can not activate the w/b sequence fast enough to reset the engine.  If the transformer is a Z-1000 MTH with the controller, you should be able to do it.  Set voltage around 10V when doing it.  G

I do it with the Z1000 on my test bench, so I know those should work.  Of course, the heavyweight Z4000 works great as well.

Tim:

It would be useful to correct the subject line to read "Lionel post-war ZW" to clear up any future confusion by those seeing this thread for the first time.

Bill