I would say play with some DCC and decide how into it you want to get. But you will probably want something that can read back CV values and change more than just the locomotive address. I built a dua

Per Model Railroader’s forum the MRC Prodigy Express cannot read CV’s and my experience has been the same. Anyhow, I should have written all the steps down, I went down there and looked it over and af

I’ll see what I can do. I read somewhere that the MRC system doesn’t always play well with others, meaning it can’t always program other make decoders. Thanks Bill K. No virus found in this message. C

These engines are straight Athearn DCC-Ready RS3’s from 2006. They did not come with decoders at all. Someone installed them in the units prior to my purchase. Not only that, but they removed DCC read

Shrink is white. Engines are 2006 releases. Weird thing is they came with a ready-plug, and the plugs are in the package where they were removed from them. Will play with them some more when I get a c

I bought a pair of used Athearn RS3s (the old MDC tooling) with DCC decoders installed. Went to test them on the layout and they would not run. They seemed to be addressed to the locomotive number; th