Hi all,
Love this forum, what a fountain of information, especially for those of us new to the magical world of digital railroading!

Just wanted to pass along some of my experiences getting things (digital) up and running.

Having bought a new MS2, the introduction of my locs proved somewhat more cumbersome than experienced by me on my the previous MS1
I very methodically introduces each locomotive on my 'programming track' For the most part, all went well with the mfx-equipped units, except for the 26833 (Snow-clearing train) where the MS2 would not recognize the snowthrower unit; after several attempts at manually running the unit along the track with no rsult, I tried the 'search' function: no result; then tried manually entering the address: no result. I then placed the unit on my trusted old analog layout and the unit worked fine; after several back-and forth between the analog and programming track the mfx finally registered on the MS2.
The next hangup was the locomotive out of my 2866 Junkers transport set which had to be entered manually as the MS2 did not recognize it from the database (though the factory settings had not been altered)--no biggie as the only switchable function are the headlights. The most problematic loc to register was my 3748 'mini-croc' which needed numerous back-and-forths between analog and programming track; after about 2 hours of analog runtime I finally managed to get it recognized by MS2. I now have 8 engines programmed and running. The only other strange issue was my 3789 Streamliner: The direction-of-travel symbols were reversed: the engine would run in the opposite direction of that indicated on the MS2 display; this situation has curiously corrected itself after a few hours of playtime!
My next project will be assembing my 37500 Northlander and seeing if MS2 will recognize it!
Cheers!

JD

I thought only 6080 doesn't support absolute direction & 6090 did....

Absolute direction came with MM2 along with F1 through F4.
Both 6080 and 6090 only support MM1 and have no absolute direction.

Meet someone with an CS2. Or meet someone with an MS2 that was updated directly from a CS2.
Or mail your MS2 to such a person.

Dealers, clubs, other members of this forum. But I don't know what's around your place.

OT: the CN tower is the tallest building I ever visited. More than twice as high as the tallest building at Cologne.

Sorted all the various issues, except: Still having a problem with the snowthrower part of my snowclearing train in that it will not stay registered in MS2 after powering down. It was the one unit I had trouble with registring from the start, if all else failed, I could always get it to run on analog after which it would usually register after a few tries. Now it will not run on analog and will only register sometimes, the last time I had to let it sit overnight and it registered (mfx) next day after a few tries. Today I ran the unit for an hour or so..allfunctions worked. I then powered down the MS2 and after a few minutes brought it back online; where the snowthrower had been registered, it now says 'no loc' and once again fails to register. Wondering if this is the mfx on the unit or a MS2 problem (though the 9 other locs I've registered have no issues) I'll search the forum to see if similar problems have been reported. Cheers!
JD