Can a proro soundboard 2 be purchased without the kit. I have the MTH UP Los Angeles AA and the Proto soundboard 2 has gone out. I don’t want a whole as I only need the soundboard.
Have you contacted MTH? I believe that as long as it’s the 3V PS2 boards, spares are available.
No I haven’t someone told that they won’t sale just parts to the general public. I will check with them and repost when I hear something.
You may have to trade in the bad board, but I’ve bought lots of parts from MTH, and I’m The General Public [:D]
Just got word back from MTH, no dice on getting the Proto 2 board replced or fixed. They want me to purchase the whole kit which obviously I don’t need. TMCC is looking better and better as I know Lionel has parts readily available. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Well, you could equip the thing with ERR’s TMCC stuff, you can actually get parts for that. 
I am a little new here what is ERR? I know what TMCC is and I think that’s what I am going to do. MTH seems too hard to get parts for as they don’t make it easy for older trains parts. I checked Lionels website and everything I need is available. I don’t care about the cruise commander, call me crazy but I like to run my trains fast and don’t care how I get there. The one problem is that I could only find the Legacy TMCC command base which isn’t cheap. Do you have a resource for the classic TMCC?
Electric Railroad, it’s a company (since purchased by Lionel) that makes TMCC/RailSounds add-on equipment: http://www.electricrr.com/
The way to get the classic command base is to keep an active search on eBay. I’ve bought two bases and CAB-1 sets, they each came in just over $100 for the pair (plus shipping of course).