Took an amazing seven hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo up and over the mountains and past the glaciers and lakes. The ride was smooth, comfortable and scenic.

And along the way I spotted these cars. That pale greenish weather-beaten car in the background is a snowplow. And based on what I learned, there can be an awful lot of snow.

Although not the basement empire dreamed of, just wanted to be able to have trains run around again.

Any one from the Brisbane region would have heard of Murphy's Creek, used to be a very important spot on the Western Line but now days is no more than a passing siding and 1 little off shoot.

It is a simple loop, middle will have a back drop and mountain to inside to block each side, the passing siding is Murphy's Creek and then heads up grade 2.25% to the loop (hidden under mountain) which represents heading up or down the Toowoomba Range.

Having experienced a few of these in my current oh so short UP career..has/does anyone figure UDE's into their operating sessions. If so how/when/ and how often and to what extent please?

As of June 19 2018 I changed the title as addresses problems had nothing to do with Kato and everyting to do with short vs long address confusion.

I just bought the KATO SD 90/43 SLRG #115 and #116.  They work in DC mode. Using a Digitrax DH126PS the decoder can have its long address changed.  When on a Run track the locomotive does not respond at all - no lights, no movement.  Taking the decoder out and putting it in another locomotive the decoder works fine.