casey jones american flyer train set

hello all, i just bought a casey jones train set to set up for christmas and found that the loco runs very nice, but only in reverse. i had an o guage train set that had a reversing unit and i tried the same technique and it did not work. i also tried a dc transfomer and got the same result. the set is probaly from the sixties. any help would be much appreciated. thanks, joe

Chances are the reversing unit is locked. Look at the back of the loco and you’ll see a small silver wing like tab, in the up position the unit is locked, pull it down to unlock the unit.

Jim

That would be my guess as well.

So, jmass, what happened?

Rich