MTH 0-8-0 I think I can sequence

Is this PS/1 or PS/2? 

For PS/1, make sure it has a good battery that is charged, and start it up with less than 10 volts out of the transformer until it initializes.  Then you can hit the direction button and adjust the throttle to move out.

It's PS1. but that is not the problem.  The engine runs fine.  It's a sequence of buttons that are pressed to make the engine sound like it's saying "I think I can" when going uphill

Hmm, I just say that under my breath, gets the job done.

No such sequence exists on PS1 engines.  Most likely you just happened to have it at a voltage that the chugging sounds patterned itself to match those words.

Apologies , but you are wrong. I have played it in the past. I just don't remember the sequence and cannot find my notes that has it in writing. If I ever find it I will post it 

P.S. It was just on this engine and it was a hidden perk.  It was never advertised and not in any MTH paperwork that I could find. 

Ok, I found the paperwork for those remotely interested.  And I stand corrected - it is in writing. I found the sequence in the QS2+ manual.  And supposedly it applies to small steam engines using QS2-300, 301 or 306 sound set, however rare they may now be.  Here is the sequence (it is a bear to do this and almost to the point of being comical, but if you are successful, it's fun to hear the I Think I can, I Know I can sounds):

 - go in to reset position 37 and press the horn button until you hear two dings. This enables the I think I can sounds.  one ding disables it.  But you're not there yet:

 - run the engine in reverse and blow the horn 3 times

 - run the engine in forward and blow the horn 2 times.  I think I can will play

 - run the engine in forward and blow the horn 2 times and I think (not sure - haven't done this in a while): a new sound will come on: I know I can.

Enjoy

And you wondered why none of us could tell you the sequence to activate it!

Lol. I knew it would only be known by referring to paperwork. I was hoping someone had it written down somewhere. 

Feature 37. Did it work ?

Sorry, just found the paperwork. Have not tried it today.  However, I successfully got it to run a few years back.  It was fun.  To hear the engine say those words in chuff talk.  Worth trying if you have QS2+. I upgraded my 0-8-0 engine to this way back.  Forgot I even did it until I read the paperwork that I just found. 

You may have some other hidden goodies.. EX  Milk run  with automatic stops.  Do you have a QSI + manual?

What? April, already?

OK, not April, so I suppose that it's true...which is really disturbing.

I think so.  Somewhere. What's in the manual?

 This is conventional....   Engine ID, road ID , Start up direction  , Slave a engine. Volume,  Coupler selection, Automatic operation,(grade crossing))    Milk run, Demo mode, and pretty much all the MTH proto-1 features.  All done with clinks & clanks / horn / bell buttons.

DCS is very similar but done in   command mode   with bursts of data.

Here's the catch ....   we  had to send  our proto-1 top board To QSI and let then do their magic (new chip) for around  $100 bucks.   

This was a hidden feature the was put in on some engines.  QSI had it for sure.  Many of those extra features QSI had, MTH did not want in PS-1.  But that whole setting ID and road name feature is the root of the problem with some early MTH chips that are on the ID list.  The low battery and software could write the wrong bit in the ID section of memory.  The MTH chip would read it and see an ID was set and not start up, but the chip software did not allow it to be cleared or do anything with IDs.   The newer chip software would not even read that memory location.  QSI and MTH useable features are quite different.   G

i can email u the qs2+ manual if you need it.

Mort

As I said before, Proto-Sound (PS1) didn't have this feature.  Being that you upgraded it to QS2+, then that's a different story.