Steamgene, suit youself if you dont like the answer. Saddle on up and beat it to samarra.

Steamgene, no need to be excused. Im afraid it dont matter what kind of tracks you use or how close you watch or whether you got 2 channel three engines because you picked cab numbers or because you picked numbers out your fez, the answer to your question is the same you see. Hope this helps. Good luck with it.

Thanks. No way around changing the channel from 3 on other engines running at the same time on the ez companion. I guess we need to wrestle or shoot to see who gets to keep 3. RIP Dale!

Steamgene, they dont because they cant. You will need to get you an ez companion and change the channel on one of the engines before you and somebody else can run your engines at the same time on the same track. Let us know how you make out.

Looks like you got a spooky engine. A couple of things might be going on but it could be the problem that you changed your engine away from channel 3. A guy in my club talked to a guy once who was a big wig at bachman and he said they set there stuff on channel 3 because it gets the best reception from the controller. So alot of the guys in my club run there bachman engines on 3 to keep it on the best channel. You might not be gitting good reception on channel 1. Are there any obstructions between your controller and any parts of the layout where the the enginge craps out.

Thanks for the great news. EZ companion will be great for the club. If all the guys whos trains run on 3 get there own ez companions can we all use them together.

We just started a club and we use a ez command control. Most of the guys trains run on 3. We take turns on the control. Can we buy another ez command and hook it to the layout also so more guys can run trains at the same time off of two controls. That would be less time to wait for a turn.