This blog is to document the building of a model railroad, the Paducah and Lake Erie. The free-lance design is set in the current time, and meant to replicate the coal-hauling roads of southwestern Pennsylvania. This version of the P&LE is a bridge line that derives its name from my wife's home town (and well known to Illinois Central buffs) and our former long time residence about 50 miles south of Lake Erie.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Isolation worked ... kinda!

I'm happy to report that isolation, as described in the previous post, worked in partially determining the power problem and preserving (after a fashion) my sanity. Simply, a different engine runs just fine on each of the throttles; the "problem" unit does not run on either. Thus, the problem - still to be determined - lies with the one unit, but now I can take it to one of a couple of Digitrax "experts" I know and get it fixed. I have called Home Depot and put the chain saw order "on hold".

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