Success! He's on his way to the LHS for a battery. We put a 9 Volt in the tender, did a PS1 reset and he's up and running. The first time he sowed me the engine was before I had DCS. At the time, I actually had that in my head as a thing to do, once I got DCS. It's a double win, as it is his wife favorite train. Trying to get him on the forum. he might also come to the open house, with me this yr. He's adding a 4th layer to his 5x4 ish holiday layout that has a train in a Christmas village up top, a subway level, a hand car level, and soon to have a second subway level as his wife found Batman online at kohls, with a 30% coupon.