Hi Bob,

Welcome. The transformers may have two brown, and a yellow and a red output (place to plug in a wire).

Hook the center portion of the track up to the red output, and the outside rails (both outside rails are connected electrically) to one of the two browns.

Since it is your father in law, offer him a buck for every locomotive that refuses to run (only test them for a few seconds, to not burn up the motor if they do not run). Buy them anyways. A good cleaning of the gears may most likely bring them to live .

Charlie

I assume you have Metal track. Underneth you can attach the red wire to the center rail and the brown to the outerrail. Send me your email address and I will send you a picture. Also, what do you have forsale? Send me a note to rhobson@charter.net. I might be able to buy it from you without even testing it.

If you look through the supply of tracks, I suppose you will find a couple of tracks with red & brown wires soldered to them. Also known as feeder tracks.

To hook up a simple oval for testing locos, use one feeder track which you connect to red & brown on the transformer and then build an oval with other tracks.

Put a loco on the track and turn the knob on the transformer. The loco should then move...


Just a warning, testing the locos on the track may be addictive and you may get hooked into the hobby...

The closest you get to a support group is this forum, since we are all addicts to this thing...

"Pretty cool" sounds like you are positive to the trains... Glad it works for you... Now just remember the "warning"...