I have an MTH ALCO PA in Southern Pacific scheme and an fellow club member of Treasure Coast Model Railroad Club has an Erie scheme. We have both bumped into the problem on the club’s layout of experiencing a short and the locos loosing their long address, cab number, and apparently reverting back to 003 for the engine address. Club is powered and controlled by Digitrax. We have been able to reprogram the long addresses, but when a short comes along, everything reverts back to 003. Suffice it to say I am interested in how to fix this and was wondering if the super cap was actually the cause. Has there been any further on this?
I have a MTH HO SP PA unit and the electric, smoke blower also went out. Took it apart, and realize that the motor only works with a turn to get it working. Seems the rotor is hanging on to the stator. I need a replacement, do you know where I can find one?[%-)]