This weekend one of my Atlas-O Dash-8 engines started acting up. Upon powering up, the engine sounds came on before I addressed the engine with the remote. The engine then started taking off at a high speed and did not respond to my Cab-1 commands.

I tried running the engine on a separate loop but the same problems resulted. Other TMCC engines run fine on both tracks...it is only this engine having this issue.

I tried resetting the engine which corrected the problem momentarily but then the problems ensued once more. The engine would speed up, slow down, and speed up and it was non-responsive to the Cab-1.

Is there anything I can perform (such as reprogramming the Engine ID) before contacting Atlas? Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Thanks,

Rick

Call Bill at Atlas. If you can, drop it off. They are not to far from Newark Airport.

Jim D.

I had a similiar proplem with my Lionel GP7. I had no control with my Legacy system and it would just take off. I returned it to Lionel for repair. Problem was a loose flywheel.
campy

I had a similar problem with an Atlas GP60, but it would not take off, it would creep.

Found out much later the engine was part of a consist (or lashup , TR n), and the TR n was the same as the TPC 300 that controlled the power. I found out because I bought a pair of Lionel tunnel motors and I wanted to see how well the EOB worked with the Odyssey by creating a consist, and when I took the consist apart, voila, the creep was gone!

The consist number might have been set by the previous owner.