John C. posted:BobbyD posted:John C. posted:Barry and John:
I'm 100 miles from home and hours away. On another chat board, the claim was made that the DCS Chrono (running time and miles) for a DCS engine begins to count IF a DCS is parked--not activated--on powered track. TRUE OR FALSE?
I just can't believe it's true, because if multiple engines are seated around a turntable and NOT operated that often, they would have hundreds of hours of running time. I'm hoping to hear/learn that this is FALSE.
John, a friend dropped off an MTH locomotive of his with 1.1 miles. And over 200 hours...
OH MY GOSH! Wow. I mean double WOW. I had no idea.
John,
It is a RailKing Scale GP9, runs fantastic and simply smokes like you wouldn't believe! Doesn't have a scratch on it so I checked mileage/time for the heck of it while shutting down and then restarted the DCS system to verify after I realized what I had seen. Have no idea where it sat powered up all that time at his place We also have a early MTH GS steamer bought used which came with a lot of hours that is an outstanding runner/smoker as well. It is so old the harness is soldered directly to the board.