balloon6:woot1:WELCOME KRYSTEN!!!
Don't worry, man -- you'll be surprised how fast this time will go!
Went in the basement today at noon and hooked up TPC and TMCC equipment. Took a little while, because I had to find some wire - as a temporary measure, I just used some 12 gauge house wire. I might use that anyway, since I have plenty, LOL. Well, went to fire the dang thing up and we were totally out of AA batteries! Called wife at grocery store and told her to pick some up. Then I spent the day doing stuff around the house until nearly dinner time, when son and I had to hit Lowes for a new trimmer for him (he's going to earn some extra money by trimming just around the front and sides of the house, so got a recharger/battery trimmer). We went out to eat at Crackerbarrell, and then I finally got a chance to run my trains! The MTH train runs pretty well with the TPC. I can operate the coupler, horn, bell, some sounds, and direction etc. It sure does run nice. Thomas, on the other hand, will only go one direction with the TPC. I put him back on a little circle with just a regular CW80 and he changes direction fine. Back on the TPC controlled track and he only goes forward again. So, it must be something about Thomas - maybe the E-Unit or something? Now, when I put him on the track backwards with the TPC he would only run backwards. Maybe he wants one side to be connected to the other, but I thought that fastrack did that? My bigger loop with the TPC/TMCC setup is fastrack. Smaller loop is O27. Any ideas? I was going to run the HWX next, but the realized it was 8:30 and needed to quit so we could get the kids ready for school and bed.
Jeffrey, I'm thinking of putting TMCC in one of my docksiders - will have to look it over. Got a bid from TAS for my Hogwarts Express. DIY would be about $170 and having them do it would be another $70. Since it was part of a set and therefore really inexpensive, I don't really have a problem with that price - might have them do it for my birthday....