Used MTH F59Hi with Rail Sounds - Strainge Running...........

First of all, its Loco sound, the lesser sound system that is about 20 yrs old but I remember some items in MTH yearly catalog that still listed Locosound engines up to around 2004 or so.  

The z750 should have run the engine just fine, of course the z1000 has another 25 watts and is a great transformer.  Most sets came with the 500 or 750.

I sure would have thought that the z750 would run it,bbut it just crawled. When I hooked the z1000 up to it it ran fine just like it should. I still think there's something odd about that. I'm just not sure what it is. Still looking 4 thoughts and comments on this. s. Thanks,Roger

I had a Z750 with a bad controller I bought used. Mine was either off or full throttle I seem to remember? I sent it out for repair and was told to get a Z1000 controller. Maybe something different in it's design?

I think you aren't getting full power to your rails with the Z750 for some reason? Sounds like the Z1000 works fine.

I bought the Z4000 to run conventional MTH trains.

Off topic a little, but you might try a Mr. Clean eraser on that slight scratch. Use it lightly, but it often works for me to clear up minor scratches on silver painted locos.

Good luck with your other issues. Fortunately, it doesn't sound serious. Just need the correct amount of power to run the thing.

Take care.

As a side note, are the pickups and wheels clean along with the track?  Gunk can also interfere with pickups and ground, we run into that on our Williams a lot.

Thanks for the tip on the Mr. Clean Magic eraser. My wife uses them all of the time.
I will give it a try.

Any more comments on the MTH with Loco Sounds not running beyond a crawl with a X-750, but running seemingly well on a X-1000?

can you test the power at the rails with the Z750?

I have the Z-750 all boxed up for sale.
However, I remember that 16v was about 4/5 of the dial, so It should have had plenty of room to get the required power for an MTH with loco sounds.

I could also run all of my Lion Chief and conventional Lionel locomotives (using the Z-750 controller), as well as all of my DCS locos (Direct from Z-750 brick to Remote Commander receiver box).