@endless tracks posted:Let's go with the flakey switch. I moved it DCC and powered it. It lite right off as though it would in conventional. I did not try to move it. I powered down and put the switch back in DCS and then it could be "found" using Add New Engine, as they usually do.
Summed up....it's now working!!! I have other Atlas PS3 locos on order for late 2022 delivery. Let's see how that goes!
Thanks to everyone who chimed in here!
In conversations with the Atlas folks, former MTH products they offer are exactly as MTH made them, no changes or revisions.