Santa Fe 5012

[traindad74]

Hello, was wondering if anyone could help me out? I recently bought a santa fe 5012@ a local train show. It was a great deal and my 4 3/4yr old son fell in love w/ it! It runs great,lights come on and smoke element works! The only thing that doesn't work is the sound board on the tender. This is the 1 plug model w/ speaker port on bottom of tender. I know that it is powered by the track and then the loco but it doesn't seem to be powering the speaker. Any help or advice would be appreciated, thanks.

[ACY]

If it has smoke then it either does not have sound or is a really old loco. Open the tender and look to see what is inside.

[Doneldon]

RRdad-

I don't know specifically about your loco but I can say that you can have speaker holes in the tender floor and an IC board without having DCC or sound. Many locos have a PCB for lights.
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