Ok. I found a workaround that actually works pretty well with some caveats. I’ll keep this short for the sake a brevity but if you want more a more detailed list of what I did, let me know.
First, I flip flopped the headlight/taillight connectors for the dummy car. Now when it’s initally start up its taillights are lit.
Next I tricked the DCS controller into thinking only one engine is on the track.
Now when I press “start up” both cars start up with the lead engine displaying headlights and the trailing car displaying taillights. The press of the direction button changes headlights to taillights and taillights to headlights simultaneously and appropriately.
The caveats:
In trolley mode the subway will go to all stops and at the last stop it will automatically change direction a reverse its course. When it does this, the lead car automatically switches from headlights to taillights. However the tail car doesn’t automatically switch from taillights to headlights. A quick double press of the direction button fixes this and the taillights will switch to headlights.
I had to take the trailing car (dummy car with PS3 board and directional lights) off the track to program the trolly stops. It caused too many issues with the DCS. Once the stops were programmed for the powered unit, I added it back with no issues.
I’ll run it like this for a while and see if any issues creep up. Thanks all again!
