Coca Cola Christmas Train

[manofthesea]

Hello everyone, I am a train set rookie... I have a Coca Cola Christmas train in HO scale. It's great, but there is a problem. I have one engine and six cars and a caboose. It has worked wonderfully for the past few years but with the last car I received it stalls. It stalls with only one car now. I am wondering if there is a higher powered control unit that I can use.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

[WilsonProductions2]

A Coca-Cola Christmas Train sounds cool! Sounds like something I would love to own!

If the locomotive has not been ran for a few year's, then it would benefit from a service. Maybe a drop of oil on all the cogs and wheels and then a good run for about 30 minutes, in both directions should work and sort it out. If not, then it needs to go to a specialist!

[manofthesea]

Thanks. I took the engine to the hobby store when I replaced a section of track a couple of weeks ago. The clerk gave the engine a smell, but didn't say anything to me.

[jbrock27]

Sounds like your loco is the problem Chum, not your power source.

Make, model and time period the loco was built?

[WilsonProductions2]

^^ Maybe that was to see if was leaking oil or not. That is my best guess as to why he smelt it! I think it needs a trip to a model railway specialist. That will only way to get it running again, like when you first got it out of the box.

[manofthesea]

Thanks everyone, this is the set I have..
http://www.bradfordexchange.com/products/917292_santa-train.html
If you notice that Issue 2 includes an engine car..but it just coasts along with the loco..it doesn't have any drive power or anything.
but the clerk at the hobby store I mentioned before does have experience with trains..I will take my loco and engine to him if I need to.

[WilsonProductions2]

^ I think you may have posted the wrong link their, mate! Mickey Mouse handbags, watches and baby children dolls does not give us a Scooby-Doo (A clue) of which Coca-Cola Train Set you own!

[manofthesea]

Sorry about that. I pasted the link from the Bradford Exchange Coca Cola train set, but it seems to have sent people to the home page.

[Len]

If you've had the set for several years, you may just need to clean the track and loco wheels. One other possibility is the lighted passenger car may have a wiring problem that's dragging the power level down.

Len

[dutchbuilder]

It sounds like you have a bit of trouble with friction in the wheel bearings of the cars.
A tiny little bit of oil might do the trick.

Ton

[jbrock27]

^ I think you may have posted the wrong link their, mate! Mickey Mouse handbags, watches and baby children dolls does not give us a Scooby-Doo (A clue) of which Coca-Cola Train Set you own!

Not sure what you are going on about, mate; I click on the link he provided and up pops the Coca-Cola Train...

I would advise against putting any lube on the wheel bearings of the cars.  You are more likely to attract dust and dirt/crud there.  Focus on the loco's motor and the track first.  It makes no sense that suddenly the wheels and trucks on the "wagons" are presenting problems after several years of running fine.  But, if they (the trucks) happen to be plastic and the wheels don't turn freely any more; 1) check for dust and crud in/on them (do you run this set on the floor?); 2) invest in a truck tuning tool to ream the trucks;  3) think about metal wheel-sets to replace plastic ones, as they are most often freerer rolling.

If I read you right, it sounds like your troubles began when you added an additional car (wagon) to the train, is that correct?

[WilsonProductions2]

^ Not for me, jbrock27. I clicked on it and all it comes up with are Mickey Mouse branded handbags, baby toy dolls and watches that they are selling. Not a single image of a Bachmann Coca-Cola Train Set came up for me.

This is what comes up for me: http://www.bradford.co.uk/, which is The Bradford Exchange homepage.

[jbrock27]

You must just be special then.

[WilsonProductions2]

^ No, I'm not. Nothing to do with me, if the image dosen't appear, jbrock27... . It could just be that I'm viewing it on my tablet or something. I don't know.

[WoundedBear]

Doesn't work for me either......the link takes me to Bradford's Canadian site. BE has there site set up so it tracks your physical location, then directs you to the appropriate site.

Wow....is there ever a pile of junk for sale there.....lol. I can see all of it being future garage sale inventory

Sid