i have seen ads for this since Oct. '15. two online dealers are taking back orders. My question is, is this in production yet or will it be soon.
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Delivery schedule shows October. Another thread there are additional features (not revealed) that are being incorporated. Could be good!
At the LCCA convention Lionel said they were going to add wifi to the control before its released
well that probably raise the price hope not $50 was a decent price point.
I believe it was Blue Tooth not WiFi that was being added.
Jim Sandman posted:I believe it was Blue Tooth not WiFi that was being added.
sorry, you are correct !!
If new features are being added now, I seriously doubt you'll see it in October! 
Maybe a prototype at York...
Wasn't blue tooth mentioned as a connection medium with HO gauge polar express engine? Is this related?
That is in another thread, it was stated: "It will run on DC or DCC with a transformer, DCC controller, or the Lionel handheld remote. The remote apparently uses Bluetooth so that means that you can also use a smart device and an app to control it as well. The Lionel electronics plug into a standard 9 pin DCC plug which means you can put a standard DCC sound decoder in if you like. This is the perfect approach IMHO. Kudos to Lionel."
And then Lionel added: "... I used the core operating DCC code from the Flyer line to port into this product - and thus saved a lot of development time.
I also followed the 9pin DCC connector standard for folks who want their own DCC flavored decoder. Easy to pop out the Lionel DCC, and plug in the DCC decoder of choice. You will lose the BLE radio though, and certainly the BLE radio makes room for a lot of future growth in the product lines - as folks noticed. Exciting times ahead!"
And then I wondered if the remote thru blue tooth were sending DCC commands to the decoder directly, a kind of DCC blue tooth command "tunnelling"...
https://ogrforum.com/t...r-express-set?page=1
