FictionalCharacter
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hey all.
so my girlfriend ordered an bachmann 2-8-0 great northern passenger train set from ebay. track seems to work great. light-up passenger cars are either heavy or stubborn or both, but i'm sure we can work that out.
but the 2-8-0 engine ran a couple of loops around the track before dying. i guess my gal tried to get it up and running a couple of times and it would make some horrific noises but not go anywhere. now it's just completely dead and won't react at all.
also, interestingly, placing it on the track kills the current through it, which i noticed because the lights in the passenger cars wouldn't work when the locomotive is on the track.
i'm aware that a bachmann train set locomotive from 1997 is probably the very definition of subpar construction and unreliability, i was just wondering if anybody might have an idea that would escape a newbie such as myself.
fortunately the whole thing was cheap enough that i still think it was worth it for the ez track, power pack, and four passenger cars. pretty lame walking in the door to a train-wielding girlfriend with a frowny face, though.
so my girlfriend ordered an bachmann 2-8-0 great northern passenger train set from ebay. track seems to work great. light-up passenger cars are either heavy or stubborn or both, but i'm sure we can work that out.
but the 2-8-0 engine ran a couple of loops around the track before dying. i guess my gal tried to get it up and running a couple of times and it would make some horrific noises but not go anywhere. now it's just completely dead and won't react at all.
also, interestingly, placing it on the track kills the current through it, which i noticed because the lights in the passenger cars wouldn't work when the locomotive is on the track.
i'm aware that a bachmann train set locomotive from 1997 is probably the very definition of subpar construction and unreliability, i was just wondering if anybody might have an idea that would escape a newbie such as myself.
fortunately the whole thing was cheap enough that i still think it was worth it for the ez track, power pack, and four passenger cars. pretty lame walking in the door to a train-wielding girlfriend with a frowny face, though.