Am not sure where the problem lies here - Tonight I ran our K-Line Hudson with a 3v PS2 conversion at the club and it was operating fine for awhile. I bring my older DCS system (that was updated last April at York) from home to operate with. At some point a gondola derailed and the Z4K tripped. Upon powering back up, the locomotive came on with no sound or smoke. I brought it around to near where the TIU is located as we still have weak signal areas on the layout. I couldn't get it to restart with sound and smoke and then it quit responding to the DCS altogether but did come up in conventional. Sound worked and she ran fine but no smoke and it would not sit silent/dark with power to the track.
Meanwhile we ran new member Terry Patterson's RK Blue Comet with DCS and it performed normally on a separate loop. So I powered that loop down and placed the Hudson on it (with the Blue Comet) but when power came back up it remained quiet this time. I hit 'start-up' and she came alive with idle sounds but wouldn't respond to any commands. After a minute or so, with me trying power on/off she came up in conventional again and ran fine, sounds on, but still no smoke.
Now I'm back home with my DCS system on a 5' piece of track that I use here with usually with no trouble on my bench. Power up and nothing. The remote is not reading the locomotive at all and she's silent and dark. I added a RK RS-1 and it won't respond either and neither engines are recognized by the remote. Please remember that Terry's RK steamer worked fine responding to the remote normally while I was having trouble with the Hudson at the club an hour ago.
What do you think please?
