Star hobby is one of the few hobbys shops left in the DC area. They are generally great to deal with, but they don't have a test track. I should have inspected the loco as it ran, but honestly I didn't expect that screws would be working loose so quickly.  It's a very nice model and I hope a decent runner

Today at lunch I slipped over to Star Hobby in Annapolis MD and bought a K4. Wow, what a beautiful model, I thought. I few minutes ago I put it on the track and it ran beautifully. For five minutes. Then it jammed to a stop. One of the hex head screws holding the drivers on had worked loose, and jammed up the siderod, bending it badly out of place and throwing the hole mechanism out of quarter. I managed to get it apart and straightened, but now it doesn't run right--it makes a bit of a grinding noise.

Sigh...not ten minutes of running.

Can I return this under warranty?

Thank you

I'm new to this forum, and I recently bought a 4-6-0 D&R.G. Annie to go with some Bachmann Jackson and Sharp yellow coaches. What a nice train! Great detail, runs well, pulls well. I'm very impressed.

Anyway, I wanted to convert it to run remotely using Aristocraft's 75 mhz. onboard Train Engineer, using track power. I'm not using batteries, but track power. Maybe someday batteriesi, but not now. And I already have an extra TE onboard receiver--the 75 mhz. model, that I can install.

Does anyone know of a page or site that shows instructions on how to do this? I have the wiring diagram, and it looks to me like I could accomplish the whole conversion without taking the engine apart, just by unsoldering the wires that come to the two switches at the front of the smokebox. It looks like it, but I'm often flumoxed by the magic of electricity. If anyone has converted an Annie to remote control and track power I'd be delighted to hear of your experience.

Thanks