Thanks to Scouting Dad on another thread, I got my locomotive to recognize the DCS Remote Commander IR and I am pleased finally watching a train run on my layout, albeit with temporary wiring. The loco had no issues at all running the 40 feet of the O-72 loop with no drop off in power despite only using a single power feed to the track. Still plan on doing 4 sets of power drops, but this now brings up another fun decision after my test runs this evening.
With the well known limitations of the IR receivers, the "skillful" aiming of the remote is put to a challenge when one is looking up at the ceiling as compared to down on a table. The operating of a ceiling train basically locks your eyes and brain on the train more so than on a table layout and there are some blind spots when one is looking up. Some nervous times – even with only one train running – when the IR receiver is behind you. It thus looks like I may be using the MTH power set up on only one of the loops (the outer O-72 Track) and run LionChief locos on both tracks. So instead of having the IR receiver on the opposite corner controlling the inner O-63 Track, I'm going to have to have both IR receivers control the same track from different vantage points. For extra peace of mind I was thinking of placing IR receivers in all 4 corners of the room and having the two receivers on each side controlled by the same Z1000 brick if possible, but that will most likely be 4 Brick/IR combos, one in each corner
Here are 3 short videos that I took this evening. I will eventually edit all of the videos that I took tonight and place them on my YouTube channel. Note that everything is still in the construction stage. I have to spackle all those drill holes that I made in the walls, for example. I had fun filming while standing on top of a ladder and spinning around as close to 359 degrees (yes, 359 degrees 
) as possible.
