No Engine to Add help!

That's a REV. G TIU and they do have trouble with the latest PS3 equipment sometimes. How is your track signal with the engines that do work?

The later generations of TIU ate much better and I bet that a newer TIU or WTIU would solve a lot of these issues.

Not sure about the signal strength as right now I don’t have any active engines.  I removed the PCC while troubleshooting the Subway to see if I could get that added again, but it wouldn’t take, and I ran out of patience to keep at it.

Your engine powered up in conventional because it missed the watchdog signal for DCS. It does happen and usually hitting Start Up works.

Rather than getting into a lot of detail as to how your layout is configured or wired. I would start by getting an extra piece of track and setting it near the TIU and power it using Only Fixed One. Disconnect what is presently on Fixed One Out as well as the Outs on the other channels and power just that one section of track. That’s all that’s there for the TIU to search for an engine. Try re adding your engines.

If you have no luck. Leave Fixed One powered and try another channel. If you get them to add. Do a signal test. With only one section of track you should yield a 10. If not get everything squeaky clean as far as track, rollers and wheels and test again. You really can’t work on the layout itself to you get an engine added. Then signal test the whole layout.