Ha... I bought two of these miserable trains and numerous extra cars. My whole story on these exists on old threads on here. MTH was not helpful as chronicled in my other thread. Finally sets went back to MTH only to return and soon have more trouble. They have since gone for more repairs at an MTH service station and after another $100 out of my pocket the VIA train ran again briefly, now dead again. My Amtrak one still works although two extra coaches are shorting out again and sidelined. Many parts have fallen off of these sets...most before I ever opened the trains the first time.
Beautiful models...horrible design operationally...pathetic response from MTH. The VIA one is a shelf display now at a cost of about $1200 with all the extra cars. Amtrak set running for now but minus two cars. i spent about $2,000 on TurboTrains and MTH really treated me poorly to say the least.
My plan is to eventually rip out all of MTH'S electronics and put individual conventional boards in each power car.
