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I wondered how Lionel would lash these units up for the purpose of coordinating the electrocouplers. I expected an electrocouipler off switch in the A unit so that only the B unit would detach cars. But to my surprise, and wonderment, uselessly only the B unit has the off switch and for what? So instead of being able to designate both units as the same engine number and saving a Legacy 2 digit designation, as Lionel normally does with Legacy AA units, you must give each unit an engine number and create a train lashup for the electrocouplers to work properly. Seems like they might have known over at the blue and orange.

And also what is never metioned in the operating manual and for what purpose does each unit have a hatch open over the smoke units? There are no settings to access there. And the operating manual illustrates the settings switches under the wrong location in the B unit. This is all small stuff but these are not kids toys. So like the NPC SBL Yueltide car these are adult collectables for good money so why are errors like these tolerated?

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I thought the removable hatch over the smoke units is for easier filling of the smoke unit. Isn't the electro-coupler off switch for when the unit is a center unit in a consist?

Actually the manual shows filling from the outer stacks. The electronic circuit board is right there and I wouldn't want to drip any on it. I don't think that placing it in the center position, while possible, was the intent since the super bass sound is meant to suppliment the sound of the A unit.

I have the Base3 and a CAB2 as well as an LCS sensor track. I was impressed when I programmed the A and B units with the CAB2 that the Bese3 immeadiately recognized what the units were and named them and entered all the information about them, including sound and everything. I didn't have to use the LCS track. Probably through bluetooth there is some information received from the locomotives and the base used its WIFI to get the information from a cloud database. Why not have locomotives talking to the base by blurtooth, or even better perhaps WIFI? MTH operators have been enjoying that kind of control and feedback for sometime with the TIU or WTIU, but with the additional hassle and complexity of the star wiring requirement. With the signal being transmitted through the general ground Lionel TMCC trains are easy to set up and control. Lionel trains of the future may be able to do everything MTH trains do by using bluetooth or WIFI feedback without adding any complexity to the setup.

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