Originally Posted by cbojanower:
I was just told by Lionel spokesman Clyde Coil, the pictured Big Boy is a new product line in the tradition of the Conventional Classics series. Called LTI Classics these engines will feature engine to tender tethers , one chuff per revolution, reduced smoke and unintelligible cab talk along with only the most basic TMCC features.
As he told me the GenXer's are reaching their 50's and Lionel wants to build engines that remind them of the ones they saw in the 1990's.
I think its a good move, after all even Allan Miller has mentioned that the legacy remote is so cumbersome its difficult to use.
Enter the Lionchief plus, small enough to manage with a throttle dial and whistle and bell buttons. No more gigantic overly crowded keypad of hard to read whizzbang icons and various sliders and constantly changing screen.....its pure genious.
No more spending hours reading through a poorly done instruction manual to figure out how to make things work.
Getting back to just running the trains, isn't that been the point of the hobby in the first place? I don't think the number of chuffs, swinging this or steaming that, really has anything to do with what this hobby is all about.
Smart move Lionel!
