Club Layout: Z-4000, my #990 base: Will Cab-1 remotes work?

For the Cab 1 remotes to work, you must use the Y cable included in the 990 Legacy Set, and hook up the Cab 1 base. Read the Legacy Instructions Manual as it’s very clear. When hooking up the cab1 base, you do not connect the outside ground rail, Only to the Legacy base.  I am not an electrical guru, but there are different frequencies involved here....Good Luck, Happy Railroading..

Ok, I did not read the post correctly, I thought Cab 1....In Looking back, I see Cab1L.  So, no extra base necessary. Forgive me for my oversight. Happy Railroading.

I'll tell ya . . . for someone who understands electronics, getting into these Lionel electronics for the first time is rather confusing.  

PowerHouses and PowerMasters say they both "supply track power."  So it sounds like they are both transformers.  But they're not.  It took me awhile to "find" out they're very different, and what they do.

The Legacy Control System (V1.6) Manual, page 8, talks about, and shows illustrations to operate Cab-1 remotes and Cab-2 remotes at the same time:  Connecting them together using the cable that comes with the LCS, to a TMCC Command Base.  That TMCC Base looks likes the 1L base to me.  But the note says "Base 1L should not be used on a layout already utilizing a LEGACY base."  It took me quite awhile to research, and figure out, that a TMCC Command Base is not a 1L base.  https://www.lionelsupport.com/...0LEGACYv16Manual.pdf

The Cab-1L and Base 1L Manual says, "If you already have a LEGACY Base (6-14295), you can simply add one or more CAB-1L remotes to your existing LEGACY layout—no need for the Base-1L." 

"You may use a combination of LEGACY CAB-2 and CAB-1L remotes with a single LEGACY Base. However, only CAB-1L’s may be used with the Base-1L. NOTE:  Only one Base (either the LEGACY Base or the Base-1L) should be used on a layout. Only CAB-1Ls may be used with the Base-1L."  https://www.lionelsupport.com/...7250CABandBASE1L.pdf

End result:  I found my answer:  I will remove the 1L Base and connect my LCS Base.  That will allow the existing Cab-1L remotes and my Cab-2 remote to be used at the same time.

I hope you mean the Legacy #990 command base, I'm not sure what the LCS base is.

Hi John,

See . . . more confusion.

Legacy Control System (LCS) = The #990 base with the Cab-2.

Now they add - Lionel Layout Control System (LCS) also equals this:  http://www.lionel.com/lcs/

For a person getting into the Lionel electronics for the very first time right now (me):  Lionel's terminology choice for all this varying equipment is terrible.  It leads to a lot of confusion.

Are you talking about the old TMCC Cab1 remotes? They only work with the TMCC base. 

The Cab1-L remotes will work with the 990 base as well. IIRC the Cab2 remotes will NOT work with a Cab1-L base.

Not sure that newfangled thing will run trains.

My first answer was an oversight, thinking simply Cab 1, the first remote offered in TMCC, metal antenna with extension. That’s simply Cab 1...That would require the Cab 1 base....

With Cab 1L, no other base is necessary as the Legacy base with set #990 will work.

Yes, cab-1's will work off a Legacy base as you connect the original or old command base to the port on top of the Legacy base with the Y cable supplied in your Legacy box. It is CLEARLY where the cables get connected.  This way you can use either remotes.

Also, the ground wire goes to the Legacy base ONLY.