@gunrunnerjohn posted:Replace the DCDS with ERR Cruise Commander M modules, problem solved.
Yeah that's how I am leaning John. These are CN Dash 9's #2528 and #2529. I would really like to be able to run them as lashup hauling the Tank Train of about 2002, for which I now have quite a bunch of extra tank cars. #2528 is the one that came with the Tank Train and #2529 was a separate sale engine sold a year earlier I believe.
Interestingly the #2528 came with led headlights and B/U lights (but incandescent ditch lights), whereas #2529 came with incandescent bulbs all around. Yet they are identical in every other way. It must have been during the transition era when Lionel was switching from bulbs to leds I guess. So another project is upgrading the latter one to leds all around to match #2528.
Is there any place less expensive to buy CC-M modules than GGD/3rd Rail?
Rod