Hi All,
I have been driving myself crazy (but that's OK--my wife says it's a short drive 
) trying to get the horn on my 2344 NYC F3 to work. It's been on my layout for quite some time (after years of storage) but I never put a battery in it to blow the horn until now. We've (my father and I) had it since it was new so I know it did work before storage; there is no battery damage.
Of course, the horn didn't blow. I took the D cell out, jumped from a 9 volt battery to the appropriate places to "break the horn loose" and it blew. Jumped from the D cell to the appropriate places and it blew. Put the battery back in and it wouldn't blow using either my test track (1033 transformer) or my layout (rebuilt ZW transformer). Both transformers do activate horns/whistles on other engines.
I've cleaned both the sliding bottom plate (negative) and the receiver (positive) on/in the engine and jumped from them to the D cell; the horn blows with the jumpers but not when the battery is properly inserted. I've also removed the horn and cleaned both the frame and the horn brackets so the horn is getting a good ground from the frame.
I'd appreciate any ideas you may have to solve my problem. The engine runs fine so I don't really need the horn but you know how it is: now that I've tried to make it work it bugs me that it doesn't.
Thanks for your help.
Bob
