I currently operate MTH engines with the DCS. I noticed some very fine Lionel engines featured on YouTube (Eric Siegel 76 does a great job reviewing engines) and thought it would be nice to add some Lionel engines to my collection. I understand that if I connected my TIU with a TMCC base I could control all Lionel engines with TMCC completely and only TMCC features found in any Lionel Legacy engines. Everywhere I look I read I would not be able to access "advanced features" of a Legacy engine such as quillable whistle by using my TIU connected to a TMCC base. TMCC base is very inexpensive to buy compared to the Legacy base. Can someone tell me what other advanced features on a Legacy engine I would be missing out on if I bought a TMCC base and hooked it to my DCS system? I can live without a quillable whistle...but what else might I miss out on? Cab chatter? Direction control? Light control? Thanks!
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