LEAPINLARRY : Great job on organizing the boxes etc...that is next for me after I play with the trains awhile! Right now they are mostly under the layout - yes this makes it hard to troubleshoot, maintain, and fix wiring. Your place looks great, just don't spend too much time looking at that "Playboy" mag however, yet at only 1$ a copy it must be an old one 
My day turned out to be disappointing. I just got my first "Lion Chief" engine, a Jersey Central diesel. I unpacked it from "Train World" and put it on the tracks. Sound, lights all good but it made 3/4 of a loop around the layout and stopped, never to move again. The entire gear drive on the motor truck stripped (with a load of only 4 of the "little" streamlined passenger cars on it). The main gear from the motor no longer meshes with the center gear that drives both of the truck wheels. It appears that the entire gear set has just come off the drive, Wow , what a disappointment. I have engines nearly 100 years old that are still giving good service and this thing dies after 3 minutes and about 15 ft. I admit I was looking forward to trying some "command" control - now I am not sure its a good idea. Well we will see if that "warranty" means anything.
Don
