Strange soft key menu when new engine added

Possible because it had the same address as one of your other engines.  Adding an engine by read, is not the best way to do it.

I would put it on a track with no other engines and then do an ADD MTH engine.  See what comes up.  G

@GGG posted:

Possible because it had the same address as one of your other engines.  Adding an engine by read, is not the best way to do it.

I would put it on a track with no other engines and then do an ADD MTH engine.  See what comes up.  G

GGG, thank you for the reply. I wasn't trying to load the engine with the "READ" button. (Can you even do that?)  I just wanted to see "NO ACTIVE ENGINES" in the display. Never expected to see my PRR Q-2 come up on the display. That Q-2 is not even in the same room. The new E-8 was the only engine on the layout. I did do the ADD MTH ENGINE procedure  and still got the goofy panto and Coors door open and door close soft keys, Another  forum member texted me to tell me to do a feature reset after deleting the loco from DCS, So in the end............I deleted the loco from DCS then did the ADD MTH Engine procedure and all the proper soft keys came up and the goofy panto and Coors soft keys dissapeared. Everything seems fine now. Am pleased but am curious how an E-8 would have panto and Coors beer Soft keys. Thank you GGG and Vinny

The address was the same as Your Q-2 and associated with your TIU #, so it added the E-8 as if it was the Q-2.  Sometimes with weak DCS you can get weird softkeys.

It is correct after something like this to delete the engine from remote (Q-2) than do an add of the E-8.  You also will need to readd your Q-2 which may now get assigned a different #.

Lot of DCS users say Never press the read button.  G

The engine may have been tested to make sure it works before you received it. Leaving number 1 open just for adding engines helps MOST times from this happening. I usually move the engine to a higher number after it being added to number one.