if you provided the manufacturer and model number of the turntable it would be a great help.

If you conducted a Google search for the manufacturer and model number and included "instructions" in the search dialog box, you might find something.

Is it still factory fresh unopened?

One thing you can expect is that when you try it out for the first time it probably won't run.  45 years is a very long time to sit idle .  Old cars won't run after that long of a time, but everybody expects toy trains to jump to life. The lubricants will probably have congealed and all electrical contact points will have heavily oxidized.

Be ready to gain access to the gear train to clean all the old lubricant out with a wood toothpick and apply new light grease.  Then you'll need to thoroughly clean the locomotive wheels and the track if you expect it to run.  Rather than try to explain all that here I refer you to the many videos on YouTube for both jobs. Just remember to never use abrasives for any of that, It scratches the track up allowing it to oxidize even faster.

Cv 128 is the master volume.  Reset to a value 100 to see if it comes on, then turn it up or down to suit.  But don't turn up so high the horn distorts.

See the Kadee website.

Professionals can do it.  But it will cost more than the engine is worth.

You appear to be attempting to, on the program track, program an older decoder that requires a programming track booster.  If these are older
Bachmann engines that came with on board DCC/sound this is almost certainly the issue.  The program track operates on a reduced voltage in which the older decoders can't work that low. Newer decoders have largely evolved away from that need but the older ones are going to be around for a very long time and still needing help.

You can buy and install a booster But if the issue is simply finding the addresses of all these engines, you might be better off buying the Broadway Limited address changer.

https://broadway-limited.com/products/bli-1020-address-changer-for-ho-n-z-on30-on3-and-more

They are working on a companion CV changer as well, which should be out soon and should help people that don't want to fool around with program tracks and boosters and all that stuff, like me.

The long address can take any number up to 9999.  The short address needs to be anything below 128 if I'm not mistaken, I don't pretend to be a guru with all this stuff, I've just had to do it enough over the years.  A short address of 3 has always always worked for me.

BUT!!!! Note to Major .   Before you reset anything, try entering 714 Into "select loco" while  the 714 is on the main, not On the programming track.  I will bet that the engine will jump to life.

Major,

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I was not awake yet.

Before any of the stuff I talked about above, You should try entering the number on the locomotive cab into the select loco Function on your Pro Cab throttle.

I'd put good money on most of your engines having the same DCC address as the cab number since they were preowned.

Reset the address on a programming track.  That ought to fix things.  The fact that none of your engines are factory-fresh is telling us that the addresses are not 3.  You have to have the engine open to the correct address, which you don't know right now and is not 3, to do the factory reset using CV8, that's why it's not working.

Now, some of your older engines may need a booster in line with the program track to get the engines to read on the programming track.  Soundtraxx, who manufactured these decoders, corrected that in the newer engines, but we don't know how old your engines are and a booster may be needed.

At the risk of discussing non-Bachmann products, Broadway Limited offered a few years ago a device called an address finder, one of which I have and works on all decoders, regardless of age.  It may still be available, and it may be worth you shelling out a few bucks to get one.  It's a lot easier to use than the program track.


But, if you go the program track route, here is what you do.  On your NCE pro cab, push the escape button until the read-out is program track, 4 or 5 You can put every engine on the program track and reprogram every one of them at once to an address of 3 and gain access to all at once.  Follow the prompts in the readouts and re-reset both the long and short addresses. The long address may need to be "0003" due to a peculiarity to DCC too long to explain here . Then, one by one, you can read re-address them to the address you want, typically the engine number on the cab.

Since you have NCE pro cab like I do, look on your command station and see the terminals to connect to the program track.  You should set that up if you can and use it.  Mine is a separate piece of track in a remote area next to my command station, not part of the layout .  Make your programming track good and long  and you can line all your engines up and readdress several at once as I outlined above.

I suffered through everything you are going through right now before I figured all this out. Try the points listed above and you ought to be able to get access to your engines.

Hope this helps.  Please report back and tell us how it went.

You are, you need to go all DCC to really have it.  You don't have any control over the sounds when you run DCC engines on DC.

Yes, simplicity is the right thing for your application.

The SD is becoming historic itself.

The new age engineers on the CSX passing our house almost never clearly articulate an actual crossing signal.  That surprises me because I thought that every action on today's locomotives are monitored from remote operations and that management can read every molecule that goes on in the Cab.

I might say that the crossing signal is the only signal used today.  Crew radios have eliminated the need for all of the others.  Except maybe the two shorts when starting.  I've never heard too longs for starting the train.

What a beautiful whistle on that Hudson.