Stuck at the station

No advice, but that is a great picture.

Did you check the batteries in the Cab (handheld) ?

Did you check the batteries in the engine ? if there is one ? 

did you check block switches ? 

Maybe a reset to factory default would help.  I print this off and keep it handy.

https://www.lionelsupport.com/...oreTMCCfunctions.pdf

Bruce

Hi Sam,

It's sort of a must to do a reset/ reprogram on a TMCC engine when it hasn't been used for a while. That should refresh the electronics and get everything going again. Also give a quick cleaning to the wheels and pick up rollers.

Alex

Thanks guys - will do the reset as recommended in a few days when I can get back over to the club.

When I disconnected the Base and tried to run it conventionally, shouldn't it have started running anyway? 

Sam,

Yeah, if run conventionally (you DID have the Command Base turned Off/unplugged when you tried this, didn't you?), the loco should have run. The motherboard is just a FNR e-unit in conventional.

Do the Factory Reset anyway.

Take off the body and push everything together - boards, reachable plugs. You know all this. 

The Motor Driver board/portion of the board may have bought the farm. I got a TMCC C&A Pacific years ago - new - and it would do everything - except run. Like your loco. Turned out it had a bad Pittman motor (very odd); Lionel replaced the motor. But, you have 2 motors and even if one is bad the loco should hum and try to move (it wouldn't actually).

(it really is a very nice photo.)