Riff, I have the ez comand control, my layout is where the temp is around 55-60 d , and ive not had a problem with any other of my locos [hav 3] two richmonds & a 70 ton dies, no problem with them.just the tsunami. 4-4-0. tks GRZ

dear Riff99  I also had a strange thing, I had my Richmond 4-4-0 with sound and a few cars happly plodding down the track I went to take a video with the camera my son gave to me,Its a cannon a590, snap ed the shutter and the engine stoped like I shut the power off,after trying to find the problem I restarted the train and let it go around the layout a time or too then tried to do the pictire again and same thing again. perhaps the camera is sending a signal thats interfearing with the decoder in the engine?? the loco runs fine I used it last nite over three hrs, no problem. I wont try pictures again till I find out if my camera is a problem.. good luck in finding your problem. GRZ

 Rich where did you get the sound for your 70 toner? did you install it your self? was it hard to do? I just got a Bachman 70 ton to make over to the rutland # 500.. im going to follow DON JANES article in the nov 208 RMC,he did a super job. thank you GREG.

 JEFF! did the guy in the caboose make the trip OK? wow!           JEFF you are correct I do live in GODS country, have over 70 years now thanks to my mom & dad, they GAVE me the hunk of land I wanted to build my log cabin on and I did just that ,and scratch bult it.they would have loved it.lost them both 8 months apart.I look out my front window at the farm house where I grew up.it is truly a wonderfull place to live .thank you for reminding me.grz  oh yes the 440 well I dont think the re programing helped. I guess i was just wishing to hard..

here we go again no I cannot back up my story! but likeI said I stood on this locomotive. and at the time I thought it had the shape of something like it then when I was telling ED,then he filled me in on what had happend at that time with the dam and hydro.as far as flying over and looking in the river and seeing anything no way!! that river is very dingy and murky..I boat that river a lot as I live not far from it and the wake my boat makes is coffee in color,and I never pass this area that I dont think of that poor kid and why I was there in the first place..if HARY FRYE the B&M    historian like you said why did he miss this one??I would like to know that.plus the thing is 16 or 18 feet down.IM done with this!! I will listen to the news of it being found again however,that will be fun..

Terry 2 foot.the person that gave you that information was 100% correct. the river back in the late 40s was lots smaller then,and the tracks were very close to it,when the mill was replced with a hydro& dam it made a large pond,I under stand the track was moved eastward to bypas the river.grz ps the little town of LEWISTON is no longer,I have a postmark from the p office there..g

DEAR JIM, wow I understand your anser to the problem I think? I called BACHMANN in PIHILY, the lady told me to re prograham the loco,using the information on the dvd that came with the loco. I did this and it helped a little ,she said I may have to do this 2 or 3 times, not too close together tho,im too old to know how to work this new stuff,I have no one that can help in my area ,im the first to make this dcc move in my area, the hobby shop in W.LEB N.H.is more interested in plaines and gas powerd cars. they wont evan order rail road stuff for me, I have to mail order every thing, boy how I wish we lived closer you have the knowledge to work this stuff. will this vibrating hurt the motor ?thank you ever so much for your help grz

  Dear JOE SATNIK.what year would your map be? because the reason the loco is where it is is because they were going to flood the area, the new hydro dam was ready to go on line the very morning of the derailment, I guess the ole girl was working to pull the iron,? I dont know this for shure but why would it be in there??any way my friend ED a avid r.r. man knew it was there,the story he told the 1400 engine was headed to scrap with the iron she was pulling when she got tired and laid down to rest.they had moved the track to the east up the hill to get out of the way of the river.I think this had to be around late 40s ??dont know..yes HANOVER N.H. fire dept would have the records of this, not shure how many guys left there would remember this tho..also rembering EDs story the loco was to far from the new iron to bother with and the rr left it there. also on the one in portsmouth she was moved a few years back, they draged her to the east 1\4 mi, the day this was going on I was on rt 95 headed to south portland me, for a load of gas.. I was on the bridge headed north and see all the boats ect down there, and being a truck driver I had to know what was going on. talked to someone on my CB radio thats how i know that one grz[they were muckin th river bottom] g

  This is not a rumor, I was at the time on the fire dept in LEBANON N.H. andI stood on this locomotive, its 16 feet down on its right side.. If my frend ED MEAD were still with us he would back this up I know its there and why its there I guess thats all that matters grz

 hi there mr Doneidon.. thank you for your reply..yes my dcc controk is the ez comand type.the engine is new,last of jan o11 / it sounds to me like the hum/growl is the motor. the growl begins when the power is turned up, one or two nochs keep turning up the power the sound gets louder loco is not moving more power till the white line on the  k nob gets just before 1/2 the engine starts to move the sound seems to go away the loco runs smothe . the other engine all it takes is very slight throttle and off it goes. ive held the little guy bottoms up and moved his wheels they move free, I dont think there is binding any where.I guess I should call Bachmann and ask them what I should do I shure dont want to spoil this thing ive waited too long to get them. yes im haveing fun.  3rd childhood...grz

Jim, this locomotive has but two pistons, and they live below d valves one each side of the BOILER..and this loco burns coal a renewable re souse..[if you live long enough that is ] I drove gas tanker for gulf oil 30 odd years and sat beside in back and on top of diesel engines and to this day I miss the sounds BUT!!! steam is my thing..thank you for your comment GRZ.

 thank you for your help, I have no idea how to work on this new system. I have the Bachmann dcc control, how do I tell if I can change the cvs withthis unit? also what would the new decoder cost? like i said fixed income is a big factor. should I send it back to have this done? it would be nice to have it work like the newer one. Greg

   I have a 6 week old Bachnann 440 with dcc. I love it,so I spent my next 6 weeks food money and got the one with sound..wow! now that I have one to conpair the first one to. the new one moves away with a bit of power, and no hum.the first one has a loud hum and takes a lot of power to get under way,but runs along good after is under way.any one know the reason?? thank you grz

  there is a boston&maine 2-6-0- in the river in HANOVER N.H.found while looking for a drowned DARTMOUTH studant, in the late 70s grz

  HI, looked at harolds new world, looks he has the same problem we do in that all the cas have the same numbers grz.