F9 loco chugging but not rolling.

[Quentin]

I have an Santa Fe F9 diesel loco that will not roll. When I crank up the power to the loco, it will start up and the light will light up, but it will not roll. This also has a DCC installed which is preventing me from viewing the engine. I have also checked the wheels to make sure they are still in working condition and they are. Any suggestions??

-Quentin

[rich1998]

Do a decoder reset.
CV8, enter 8. recycle track power. After about four seconds, the lights should flash sixteen seconds for a successful reset and the loco run on address three.
The specs for the EZ Command decoder are in the DCC page.

Rich

[Trainman203]

A diesel chugging?

[jward]

You really need to get out more. In a world dominated by General Electric units, how can you NOT have heard a diesel chug?

[Quentin]

Trainman,
By "chugging" I meant "the engine starts up". I honestly have no clue what I was doing at the time!

[Len]

A diesel chugging?

Sure. I've got an F7A from when I went to the Digitrax factory training class that chuffs like a 4-8-4 and has a Hancock Long Bell 3-Chime whistle. I've also got a Mikado with an EMD 567 prime mover. The kids love them at train shows.

Len

[Trainman203]

I live 200' from the old L&N mainline, now CSX.  At least a dozen trains pass every with GE, EMD, whatever.  I don't bother to get up and look.  I saw plenty of steam as a kid and I can guarantee you, whatever is passing here, it might be making a lot of noise, but it ain't chuggin'!  😂😂

[Quentin]

Trainman, I think that is really cool how you live that close to the old mainline!

Len, I have seen those engines at train shows and I can agree with you about the kids loving them. I have loved those since I first saw them!

-Quentin

[jward]

I live 200' from the old L&N mainline, now CSX.  At least a dozen trains pass every with GE, EMD, whatever.  I don't bother to get up and look.  I saw plenty of steam as a kid and I can guarantee you, whatever is passing here, it might be making a lot of noise, but it ain't chuggin'!  😂😂

I live 100 feet from the PRR main, and i STILL run to the window when one pounds by. Of course it helps i am about halfway up a 1% grade and they're chugging hard......

[Quentin]

yeah. My great-grandma lives near the Westville, Arkansas main (pretty sure it is BNSF) and it is on a 3% grade the entire way through the town. Those trains are coal trains, and they can be a mile long. Those things chug HAAARD

[Trainman203]

Steam engines chug.  Diesels rumble.

[Quentin]

Ok, ok. Diesels rumble, steamers chug.

[RAM]

The only mainline railroad near Westville, Arkansas is the Union Pacific.  Coal trains can and do have just about any railroad units.

[Quentin]

Union pacific! That's it. Thanks for the info RAM.
-Quentin

[plas man]

back to the chug ... best tell the TV company to re name the Kids TV series Rumbleton 
you know the one , it is called Chuggington