I retitled the thread as I'm past the electrocouplers, and moving on. First step was to see if I was going to be able to use cruise for this one, or if I'd have to stick to straight TMCC using the MiniCommander. After this test, it's clear that cruise is the way to go, I strapped the CC-Lite onto the chassis and did a little test. It has excellent low speed performance and actually zips along the track at a pretty good clip at higher speeds. Here's a short video testing it in it's primary role, note that the electrocouplers aren't actually wired yet, so I couldn't demo true switching. 
It had no issue at all low speed across the O72 Fastrack switches, that's a positive sign as well!
