I have purchased about 7 of the MTH -2 series engines over the last 4 yrs with DSC and DC only because i wanted the more recent era engines. I was an Atlas fan but they are not into producing such modern engines so I jumped ship to MTH for the the fixed pilot superstructure update. Heck, Atlas is taking guidance from Overland models is delaying production of models I desired. I waited and waited, gave reservation for the GE Dash 8 40 CW and waited more only to have the program put into limbo. So the only option was for me to buy the MTH CW and hope MTH would come up with a plug in module to make it a DCC unit. I haven't seen many if any re releases of the UP -8 40CWs with DCC. so I got what I could when I could. SO MTH if you are reading this I hope you or someone can build a plug in DCC unit for us 2 railers.
Word is that the upgrade kits can retro-fit a PS2 engine and have the internal DCC hardware that the factory PS3 engines have. Even though I don't use DCC at this time I may upgrade by scale-wheeled PS2 engines for consistency with my new engines.
