Reply to "Are new MTH E8s and PAs Proto 3-2 Capable?"

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Just got home from our local hobby shop, where I ask their two experts about this, i.e. the 3-2 rail switch. The answer is:

1) Unless one specifically orders a 2-Rail version of the model, only then does the model come with the 2-3 rail switch.

2) MTH sent out a "bulletin" quite some time ago, informing shops & authorized repair personnel that the 3-2 rail switch would NO LONGER be installed on all future 3-Rail models, due to "problems with the switch circuitry" on the 3-Rail models. In the future ONLY 2-Rail models with scale wheels will have the 3-2 rail switch.

While there, I looked at the latest MTH E9 units for METRA, and being 3-Rail models, neither of the two powered A units on the shelf, had the 3-2 rail switch.

11/25/172:54 PM

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