Hi everyone. I was running my Proto 1 Railkings Wabash Hudson (30-1147-1, from 1999) today on my test oval in forward in conventional control when it suddenly coasted to a stop. I cycled into neutral, then into reverse (where it ran fine), back into neutral again, and then into forward again but it refused to move forward. I repeated this cycle several times and it still would not move forward even though reverse was fine.
The loco definitely seems to be cycling into forward (I can her the click coming from the tender with each cycle change), and the bell and whistle are working when it is in forward like they both should, so the standard cycle of Neutral, Forward, Neutral, Reverse, Neutral, Forward, Neutral, etc. etc., seems to be fine. But the loco will not move in Forward when the throttle is increased.
Power is supplied from an MTH Z-1000, again in conventional control, and again this is a Proto 1 engine, so no DCS, and I do not own any DCS equipment. I only run in conventional.
The loco has a BCR installed and the bell, whistle, and Proto-coupler all continued to work fine, but it would not move forward.
I removed the tender and swapped it with an identical, BCR fitted tender from a second identical Proto 1 Railkings Wabash Hudson I own (I have several of these locos) and with the new tender the loco cycled into forward, neutral, and reverse like it should and it ran fine in both forward and reverse and all other functions worked as they should.
Any thoughts about what happened with the original tender, and is there a fix?
Many thanks,
Matt
