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The people who responed with an explanation of "consisting" were absolutely correct. However, there is an easier way to do this *IF* your locomotives are going to be permanently coupled, for example an F7 A/B pair. 1) Put the two locomotives on the track and program them together. This way they will both have the same address plus all the other CVs will be identical. 2) Make sure all wheels of both locomotives are wired together. This will insure that both decoders get the same voltage all the time and will avoid any problems caused by one locomotive having clean wheels and the other dirty wheels. I used this technique with an Athearn Genesis F7A/B pair with great success. One unit has a Soundtraxx decoder and one has a Digitrax decoder. All the CVs having to do with motor performance are identical, although the lighting and sound CVs are of course different. All 16 wheels are used for electrical pickup, and each set of 8 wheels is connected together.
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