toasteroven
Karten, bitte.
Longtime lurker
I recently got back into the hobby after being out of it for nearly a decade. I'm in the process of getting my materials together to get started on my layout (and a shoutout to the people who contributed to the layout section here on the forums, I'll be posting my plans shortly!), and at around xmas time I blitzed the local model store and got my hands on as much as I could (they had a 50% off sale!). I plan on having primarily CP locomotives, as I grew up in a town that had a large CP maintenance yard, and I'm going to be modeling that. However, DCC and sound are completely new to me and sucked me right in. I *must* have a DCC layout and I *must* have sound! So, to complement my CP-only layout, I thought it would be nice to have a period-specific passenger train to run through the layout as well. Which brings me to the point of posting this in the loco forum.
I bought one of TrueLine's very nicely detailed C-Liners, in 50s green/yellow CN livery with both factory DCC and sound. I was hoping I could upload some photos and clips of (IMO) this great loco... until it went mysteriously dead on our club layout for no reason a month after I bought it. So, back to TrueLine it went... and that was about a month ago.
Anyone had any bad experiences with TrueLine C-Liners? I certainly didn't expect my first post on the forums here to detail a problem, but I'm not too impressed at this point. We run all sorts of brands on our club layout (Atlas, Blueliners, Proto1000/2000, etc) and have never had, nor can duplicate the problem that befell my loco, even with an identical C-Liner.
Already tried the basic stuff before sending it off; tried reset with wand, reseat all connectors, tested with multimeter, etc. It just stopped working.
I recently got back into the hobby after being out of it for nearly a decade. I'm in the process of getting my materials together to get started on my layout (and a shoutout to the people who contributed to the layout section here on the forums, I'll be posting my plans shortly!), and at around xmas time I blitzed the local model store and got my hands on as much as I could (they had a 50% off sale!). I plan on having primarily CP locomotives, as I grew up in a town that had a large CP maintenance yard, and I'm going to be modeling that. However, DCC and sound are completely new to me and sucked me right in. I *must* have a DCC layout and I *must* have sound! So, to complement my CP-only layout, I thought it would be nice to have a period-specific passenger train to run through the layout as well. Which brings me to the point of posting this in the loco forum.
I bought one of TrueLine's very nicely detailed C-Liners, in 50s green/yellow CN livery with both factory DCC and sound. I was hoping I could upload some photos and clips of (IMO) this great loco... until it went mysteriously dead on our club layout for no reason a month after I bought it. So, back to TrueLine it went... and that was about a month ago.
Anyone had any bad experiences with TrueLine C-Liners? I certainly didn't expect my first post on the forums here to detail a problem, but I'm not too impressed at this point. We run all sorts of brands on our club layout (Atlas, Blueliners, Proto1000/2000, etc) and have never had, nor can duplicate the problem that befell my loco, even with an identical C-Liner.
Already tried the basic stuff before sending it off; tried reset with wand, reseat all connectors, tested with multimeter, etc. It just stopped working.