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Reply to "MTH HO Triplex long address programming problems"

Thanks Stuart.  It is a pleasure to meet you.  I have some experience with MTH HO locos from the four steam engines that I own and briefly with a fifth one, but nowhere near the knowledge it sounds like you have.  Don't go far, I'll probably need your help again .  

I appreciate and enjoy many of the aesthetic and performance features of MTH HO locos, but DCC functionality and programming is not their long suit.  It seems they evolved in terms of that over time.  And there's a cut off point where they became noticeably more DCC "friendly" than prior to that, at least in terms of accepting NCE Option1 long address set up programming, using CV8=8 for a factory reset (instead of pretty much only 55-55-55), and that sort of thing.  It strikes me that was around the fall of 2014 and beyond.  What do you think about that?

One MTH HO engine I very much like, but encountered a disappointing aspect with was their Dreyfuss Hudson.  The traction tire wheel set is on the gear-driven middle axle.  While all three axles have spring suspension, the middle one has less travel and softer springs than the front and rear axles.  The result is the middle axle doesn't seem to set down with as much pressure on the rails as the first and third axles do, so the engine lacks the pulling power you might expect or want it to generate.  Does that sound right to you?  

Thanks again,

Dave

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