Ryan "S",
This is the ( 5th) time in some 18 years since I have been involved in this T.M.C.C stuff, and each time I swore " I'm never going to get back into it because of this very reason". But , I always do. This is the 2nd time I've owned this particular locomotive ( 6-38616), and both times it started with a smoke resistor issue. Yet, here I am. there's just something fun about being " retro" with the old TMCC.