Thanks for responding to my question on how to set long or short hood for forward operation.
Few things I left out , My system is a digitrax DCS100 with 400 controllers the decoder was a 120 ( yes a older model ) any way what i did was put the engine on the programing track brought up CV29 entered value 9 and the engine ran long hood forward. value 8 is short hood forward it was that simple. thanks for your time.
Hooty