Locomotive wheels don't turn

Hmm, yeah, if you did a reset, then that should clear it. Odd that it appears to be happening to a second locomotive now too.

I was speaking from a recent experience. I had gotten a new locomotive with an ESU loksound decoder and had inadvertently hit the function that controlled a “hand brake” function. It meant the engine still revved up but the wheels never turned. I did a factory reset and was able to get it moving using the generic 03 address but everytime I programed to the long adress I had been using, the same issue happened. I found that for my locomotive, function 3 was the hand brake. Pressed the 3 key and all was alright. Again, not sure that is what you are experiencing, given other locomotives are now having trouble.

I re soldered the wire and the sound returned and the loco lurched a couple of feet then stopped and the cab indicated an overload. I have reset it several time and it sometimes runs backwards very very slowly before stopping. The other is a #8910 Walthers

[ GE ES44AC )that runs the same way. They both move once in a while very very slowly, then stop. I have reset both of them several times on the program track and the main track, cleaned the wheels and track. Do you have any suggestions?

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PS I think the caboose with sound and lights may have been responsible in some way. A while back the caboose and the sd-60 switched numbers and responded to each others address. It took me several attempts to get them back to normal.

That the same thing that happened when the caboose and loco changed addresses

For everyone who is interested, Walthers Tech said decoders bad, returned for repair.