Gentlemen,
I think some you have mistaken what this Lionchief beginner set is all about.
It was engineered as a little boys toy, a stand alone RTR set that was not engineered to interface with TMCC or DCS. It does however run conventionally in the manner one of the other members outlined, with some sound loss. For a young child the set is exactly what it was engineered to be, and worth the purchase as that. An addition to TMCC or DCS it will never be.
PCRR/Dave