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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffers_mz "Just before Christmas I knocked my only locomotive off of the layout when I was hanging skirting. Saturday I tried to fire up the new replacement and run a few loops for a break from hanging N scale downspouts and nothing moved. Checked the transformer with a voltmeter and it maxed out at 0.123 volts." I realize this is probably just an overview of the sequence of events, but I still get a feeling of two plus two equals eight when I read it. Locomotive sustains damage in a fall and then uses that damage to kill the power pack? I'm always suspicious of failures that appear to be related in timing, but that do not appear to be related in physical cause and effect. Many times I find instead that a single failure is masquerading as different symptoms, with the root cause still undetected or addressed. [/quote] I agree, there are no coincidences. However that was just an overview. The front truck broke off the first locomotive. It ran fine when I jumped wires from the track to the pickups. Of course in that condition I only ran it or a few seconds. Then I cleaned up an old Bachman trolley until it ran fine in one direction but bound up in the other. then played with an old Life-like 040T until I decided that the teeth missing from the gear and the deep flanges made it a better detail piece than a locomotive. Then I got the second locomotive and it got about 3 hours of running time before this happened. I am mildly curious about what happened to the transformer. This weekend I might do an autopsy and see if anything melted or just came disconnected.
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