The NS OCS f7/9 hunt

So just to let you know this won’t be a Lionel Vs MTH.

I’ll start with the trailing A 4271 from Lionel. I bought this on a binge of my must have and with a false lead on a Lionel super bass B unit. The trailing A doesn’t have a speaker, and most of you know this , but my plan was to run the super bass for sound.
Remind you this impulse buy was convinced I could run this and seeing pictures of the 4271 actually leading had me hitting the complete purchase button.
So a little about my collection that I should share is I’m all MTH but 1 NS genset from Lionel (the newer version)  which I ran Bluetooth by the way. I have no knowledge on legacy, tmcc , or whatever other system Lionel is or has.
  So here’s what I can tell you about the trailing A , Lionchief Bluetooth doesn’t recognize it ( tells me this in the manual) it does however run in conventional. Nice led lights, nice operating loco, ditch lights still work when pushing the horn button . So you might be thinking ok so what !!  Well my other plan was to run it with the new Lionel F9 Northern & Reading , which was the former 4270 and it’s B unit. I’m thinking that would be kinda interesting and might start raising a lot of questions.

only complaint;

Rear roof panel is sloppy as far as fit goes but other than that there’s no big take backs

Lionel did a not so great job on these, they may re run them in their shortened road numbers b4 retirement, but who knows when,  u may be able to add sound to your lionel powered A unit.