Echo Valley Express 2-6-0 Not Responding

[Biggie Cheese]

I've been wanting to ask this for a long time, considering that the problem has existed for a long time. I laid my DCC & Sound 2-6-0 From the Echo Valley Express set on my table, and it sat there for a few months. I went to go run it again, and it wasn't doing the things it should. No sound and barely any movement. I think I just need to dust the engine and oil it again, but I feel like that wouldn't solve the sound problems giving that they're inside the tender. I want to run it again, and preferably really soon. What should I do to get it working again?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that it runs on the older DCC module. The new one was announced right after I got the set.

[jward]

I know this doesn't help much but you said it runs on your older controller. Why not go back to that since it works? All of your other DCC locomotives should work on that one as well.

[Biggie Cheese]

That's the thing. It's my only controller. That's my only DCC engine. I would upgrade it but... you know... It's kinda expensive. The problem is in the engine, anyway. Not the controller. The controller's fine.

[Terry Toenges]

Has your track been laying on a table for months and, if so, have you cleaned it?

[trainman203]

Clean EVERYTHING, surgical clean.  EVERY point of electrical contact, that means the wipers on the inside face of the drivers with a thin piece of cardboard, then blow it out with a keyboard air can. Clean the wipers of the axles on the tender trucks with isopropyl alcohol. Spin the drivers on a paper towel laid over the rail.  People are always surprised to learn that these little trains need maintenance and cleaning.  Even if it's not the problem, they need all of this more often than you think.

Then, you say the controller is fine. It ran another "module" properly? Which must mean another loop of track or something.   So it might be the connection to the new track is defective?  The rail joiners are loose?

And you are "oiling" the engine ?  Where? How much?  What kind of oil?  I have one of those moguls just like your train set engine and it came with too much oil in it already, needed to clean it out.  So there's a very big chance that there's so much oil in it now that it's compromising your electrical contacts.

One thing I can say, is that these engines don't like to sit around forever without being run. I have the opposite problem you have, I have over 50 locomotives but only run a few of them most of the time.  I have to get all the others out at least a couple of times a year just to run a little bit to keep them limber.

There's so many places and things that can go wrong. I'm sure I missed something. Try all the stuff above, I know it's a lot, and report back what you find.