Lionel's new "Hobby Shop" Exclusive sets!

There is a difference. If your cab1 breaks you still have the option of running your TMCC engine conventionally. With LionChief there is no alternative method of control or upgrade path to legacy or conventional use. 

 

Once again: The system of a thousand remotes. Great for the purchase under the tree.

That is where it ends. Why would a company limit it's sales base selling units that are not compatible with it's best remote. The system should really be called MULTiHANDS

REMOTE SYSTEM.

 

 

       
       

True but it would not be too hard to go around the Lion Cheif board and just making it a "dumb" conventional transformer controlled engine by adding a Williams reverse board or even a rectifier.

Or drop a Cruise Commander into it.

 

Jon  

 

I also feel the remotes look cheap. It doesn't have to be the way the device is made.

The color that is chosen can make the product look cheap. The change in the legacy color IMHO had the affect of making some of the devices look cheap. The blue color is horrid. I always think of one of those cheap 1.99 radio shack project boxes..

The Pennsylvania Keystone set has a Standard O Scale tank car, gondola, and three-bay, open-top hopper.

 

 

The 1970's railbox scheme looks out of place with those 1960's freight car schemes.

 

The Erie-Lackawanna 86' High-cube Boxcar scheme could have been on the O gauge hi-cube or high-cube box car with silver doors.

 

 

Andrew

 

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