To All: Today I start a new series called Railroad Maintenance of Way. Pictured is a Burro crane used by many railroads for light duty line side work. They have enough power to pull a gondola that may contain new ties or other supplies. I captured this example of a the CSX (B&O) Burro Crane. Powered models of these have been produced. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

I have an Atlas RS1 with ESU Lok.  I have CV3 and 4 set to a momentum of 200 each.  This morning when I fired her up, those settings were lost.  Now, I can't do anything.  It just sits and idles.  I go into CV8 and set a value to 8 for a factory reset and nothing happens.  I put in 3 on my NCE and that doesn't work.  I tried with the previous engine number programmed in (#200) and that doesn't work.  I'm not sure what to do now since I can't factory reset and start over.  I'm going out for a run.

On my swing gate, I'm running two tracks over it. Do I need to use a micro switch on each end of each track at the ends of the gate which would be 4 for 2 tracks, or can I use 2 micro switches for both tracks, one at each end of the gate? Also, does it matter which rail has an insulated rail joiner put in on each track on both sides of the gate? I don't understand the wiring of this all too well from the bus wires to the track, to the micro switches, so any help on this too would be appreciated. Thanks.