I have read in the manuals that came with my starter set that it is very bad to do a sudden direction change while a locomotive is moving. I have done it once my self by accident ( still getting used to the controls on the MS ) and my 3 year old daugther did it by accident as well.

My question is will this actually do any damage to the locomotive?

I wish Marklin would have made a seperate button for direction change and not integrated it with the throttle. I will be very carefull in the future to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I guess my other question would be does the CS have enough brains to not allow a sudden direction change while the loco is set to run at a certain speed. I would think it would be simple enough to disable direction changes unless the throttle is set to zero.

Thanks
Darren

Hello Darren,
I remember the analog time when we boys would change direction pushing the buttom on the transformer. I do not
remember ever to destroy any loko. I would say, because the electric motor has to stop and change direction, the
chance to do harm to the motor is very slim.
Of course, if You do nothing else as changing the direction, the motor could overhead and burn out. But I think,
with a view times doing this, You do not have to worry.
Have fun,

Rainer

When I was little I discovered blocking that unit gave absolute top speed to my E1141 [}:)]