Or is the plural Thomi?
Anyway, I bought another remote Thomas. As I suspected, L-cubed (for Lionel Legacy Lite, as I am calling their new system) addresses both trains with the one remote. And as I hoped, just one of the included power packs provides enough power for both locomotives to run.
Thus, one "disadvantage" of Lionel Legacy Lite is that you can only control one thing at a time, although that "thing" can be a pair of Thomases. And, this applies not just to the layout you are using, or the room, but the entire house - this remote works from at least 50 feet and one floor away - through walls and floors/ceilings).
Comments: I posted just the one video but played with Legacy Lite for quite some time. It does seem that there are speed steps like Legacy uses, etc. There seem to be only about eight speeds - maybe there are more but not a lot more, maybe just six, difficult to tell - look at the video - about halfway through I hold the remote where you can see it - it's just an unmarked knob that turns smoothly, not clicks in steps.
These locos seem to take a few seconds to get up to speed, after which they "lock" to the same speed and seemingly run in sync. Prior to that, as they are working up to speed, the two run at far different speeds - I've had one rear end the other during that time, etc. When set to very low ( the slowest they will go) speeds they don't seem to get up to a speed where their cruise or whatever will kick in, and they run at different speeds and do not sync in speed at all.
I am going to detail one Thomas and all four cars I have now and paint them in something like LNER colors, etc., and use it on the BEEPWorld loop on my layout. It will be perfect for it!.
I had intended that Thomas number two would donate some of his internal organs to a BEEP, in hopes his boards could control two motors.
But . . . right now I'm looking at a wooden toy train set loco named "Green Painted Wilson," from the "Chuggington" TV cartoon series (one of my grandkids' favorites). Wilson has a short but otherwise recognizably F3 body, right down to the windows and vents, but he has three big wheels per side. Thomas's chassis has three big wheels per side: I have this second Thomas and a spare F3 A unit body in my workshop. The BEEP will have to wait. Remote controlled Green-Painted Wilson will definitely work . . . I'll post pictures when he is done . . .
