Can two identical MTH premier models with the same road numbers be controlled independently?

As long as you assign them two different IDs they are treated as two different actual units.

Example:

• BN #300 - ID 10
• BN #300 - ID 11

They are both controlled as unique engines and can be ran together as a consist.

Yes

Paul, yes, both can be done as long as you assign each one a different ID #.  I have two RailKing RS3's with the same MTH product # and road #...and two RSD4's with the same product and road #'s.  I've run all of them independently and together in a consist without issue.

When you attempt to add an engine with the same ID# as an engine already in the remote, the DCS system will automatically assign the new engine the next lowest ID# not already assigned to another engine; so you should have no problem running them either independently, at the same time or in a consist.

@Richie C. posted:

When you attempt to add an engine with the same ID# as an engine already in the remote, the DCS system will automatically assign the new engine the next lowest ID# not already assigned to another engine; so you should have no problem running them either independently, at the same time or in a consist.

What Richie said.... DCS only knows the engine by its id#

Yes, as long as they have different addresses. You can even lash them up, but you have remember which is which during the setup. I ended up with three ATSF GP35's with the same road number (I quickly changed two of them using Microscale decals). They all had different addresses in the remote and I edited the engine names later.

One issue that might come up is if the engine(s) were tested and have the same address. That happened to me on a recent purchase. The solution there is to edit the address of the first one, then add the second one.