Well, my 15 year old CAB-1 became nonresponsive again; as I was tired of dealing with it, and my young son wanted to run trains, I went out and bought a CAB-1L and base. My Cab-1 was never abused (except when my son broke the antenna), or even used that much, but it just seemed to wear out- some buttons wouldn't work consistently and the battery tabs were not reliably holding the batteries in place.
99% of time, I run TMCC engines from the Postwar Celebration Series. The other 1% is conventional. I don't anticipate ever buying Legacy engines, so I didn't buy the Cab-2. I am pleased that the Cab-1L seems to be more responsive than the Cab-1, and the trains seem to run slightly better.
So, what can be done with a broken Cab-1? Is it cost effective to fix? Are there any people that actually repair old Cab-1s?
Is this just dinosaur technology that I should just give up on? The command base seems to work fine; it seems to be a waste of equipment to just give up on this system, but I can't think of how I would use it.
Any thoughts appreciated, thanks.
