This has been posted over on the hongs forum. The real story here is the electronics behind this. The engine is able to run with the lionchief remote or dcc or a plugnplay dcc board of your choice for the ho guys.
Could lionel be forward thinking and adapt a legacy eletronics package in all thier engins to be compatible with legacy,lionchief,dcc,or traditional transformer control. This standard control package could then be put in all there scale lines o,s, and ho. Assuming the wish to get back into ho. I for one would love to have multiple layouts with just one legacy remote controlling each one.
What do you guys think and how can we get the team at lionel on board with somthing like this. It seams from a money stand point they would be opening up to new markets and new buyers of thier products.