All of a sudden. My mallet is locking up. Will just be steaming along fine, the randomly the drive just locks up.  Decoder, sounds, and lights continue, just no
Motion.  I have to remove it from the track and the she'll start again. 
Anyone have this before? I never remove my locos from the track so there's no way it has been damaged by hand.  Last lube was last year, maybe 5 hours of operation.  I have checked the rods, they don't appear to be binding. I have checked the plugs under the cab.  Tomorrow I'll remove and reseat the decoder

YEP... on my new shay, recieved january 22. 2 laps around the layout and now its clicking.... 3 broken gears.

i have called the customer service department... and no matter what extension or option i chose, all i get are voicemail inboxes.... is there another place to call?

next question, are they sending us faithful customers replacements or am i going to be expected to pay $27 to repair a one month old loco?


thanks gents

14 x 9 feet currently in a 14 x 22' room....... gonna expand again soon. using peco on30 track and Nce dcc with a few tsunami decoders... started the RR in january 2010....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkiaV5gG6_U


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjbAOwSE_to


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCDnz8z_SHg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ox2O4qP-xM

Somehow I lost the number board that goes in the center of my smokebox door
It doesn't seem to be one of the parts listed that I can order. Does anyone have any ideas? I know it's part of the smokebox door.

Bought the American, but don't like it. I really want another Connie. The American is unlettered and dcc equipped.

Hopefully this isn't against the site rules, sorry if it is

I spent the evening installing a tsunami tsu-1000 k series decoder in the 2-8-0. I installed a megabass 27mm speaker and a 27mm higher freq speaker in the tender. Made baffles out of pill bottles. The speakers are in series and compliment each other well. Managed to keep the factory bachmann board in there. I put an 8 pin plug on the tsunami harness.
The loco ran well with the bachmann installed decoder. Now it runs great! It took 2 hours, but was well worth it

I went on Saturday and didn't see a bachmann booth. Last year they had quite a display, this year nothing.  Was there another show that conflicted?

i received my tsunami equipped 2-6-6-2 last night from fleabay...
WOW. that thing is fantastic. super smooth and the sound is really good.

I have an older dc only gas mech that I want to convert to dcc. It has the 1.5 volt led headlamp, so I'll need a resistor. What about the motor leads? They have a resistor on each side.
Anyone have a diagram or tips? Thanks

are the ez mate II couplers on the on30 equip the same as the ho's?
i need to buy some ez mate II's for a different manufacturers loco, and can only find HO scales for sale... or am i just blind?

Is there a listing of layouts or clubs in on30? I'm looking for
a
reasonably local group.