For more information, I have now attached a 5 amp booster and it is still tripping with 4-8-2 alone and no sound and light off.  It is servicing a 2 oval layout that are joined by 2 DCC No6 crossovers.  All the track is bachmann track.  It can tend to stop at the same point.  The stop sign appears on the remote screen and I press and off it goes again.  Sometimes it will trip every time around and other times it will go for an hour, half an hour or more and not trip.  Any suggestions?

The 4-8-2 is pulling a 4 car passenger set and the BLI is pulling 12 coal cars but at the moment the 4-8-2 trips it on its own with no sound.

I have a Bachmann Dynamis and it keeps tripping the overload.  I am running a 4-8-2 sound loco from Bachmann  and a Sound switcher loco from BLI.  Would they be too power hungry on one circuit?

Thanks Mike.  Sound still not working.  May have to send it back to Bachmann but from Australia it will cost a fair bit.

A couple of questions regarding a loco I purchased a few days ago. The box included a VHS tape which is supposed to provide instructions, lubrication directions, as well as some history on the locomotive. The tape does not work on my video machine ( in Australia) presumably because it has a UK or US format. Otherwise the loco comes with no instructions. Do you know if Bachmann can provide the contents of this video in a format that I can access? No smoke fluid was enclosed in the shipment. Was it removed to satisfy shipping rules?



I have been struggling to get the sound going on my loco. I have managed to work out that I need a battery in the tender and I think I’ve connected the wires to the loco fine, but there is no sound. When I short the sound connector to the tender the correct whooshing noise comes out. But, it seems that there is a problem with the loco in providing the necessary short circuits as the wheels go round. Maybe I’m missing something here, but I suspect strongly that there is a manufacturing fault with the loco. I would like to get this system operating properly. Please advise on all of the above.