I bought a MTH railking with Protosound/smoke yesterday. I was looking at the MTH DCS, but the shop owner suggested that I buy a KW transformer instead. He guaranteed the KW for a year, unlike the DCS system. So, now, .... being the first train set I've ever owned, I put the track together, .... it's the lionel fastrack O 36, it's all they had .. I was wanting the atlas stuff, but back to the situation, I wired the transformer to the track, set the loco and the tender on the track, the headlight lit briefly, the smoke was filling the room but it wouldn't move. So, I pushed the direction button on the KW a few times and the MTH started moving to my delight., .... made the chugging sounds, brakes squeals, horn, whistle, ... that was all good. that worked for about ten minutes. I stopped the loco by the handle on the KW and then unplugged the KW from the wall. I went back in the room powered it up again and the loco started running but no sound, no chug, no lights, ...... and now the loco won't move it just sits there puffing smoke as it should, not from anywhere else, ... but no movement. "Did I just burn up a lot of money???
thanks, Jeremy
