thanks everyone - i guess now i should have kept the dcc set but we will make due with the Alaskan set - thanks for the information i am sure we will be expanding this set quickly

i used to have ho trains when i was younger and at different train shows you can see the ho engines moving very fast this new Alaskan passenger set has just 1 engine and 3 cars  it has the black ez track it is hooked up and runs but slow

the dcc set was the new ho dcc set with the 2 santa fe engines - the place we bought it from told us if you want to add buildings or switches or any other things dont go dcc now so that is why he wanted the big passanger set  it is the McKinley ho passenger set

i bought a dcc set for my son but was  told there was no way to hook up switches and buildings so we traded that in for the Alaskan train set - i remember ho trains going much faster - what am i doing wrong both the dcc and now this set the engines go very slow