Good Slow Speed in conventional

That is great news as many folks like a somewhat realistic train. Despite the fact it rest under the Christmas tree. Pull outs are very cool when the bell rings, the horn blows and the engineer gives the word. Then the locomotive pulls out ever so slowly as they should. After all, she is under a tremendous load and in reality, the locomotive would almost look as if it was not moving at all, it is that slow.

So, it is nice that a company manufactures something that allows the locomotive, even from a starter set to run more slowly and therefore, more realistically.

Pete

Running slow, smoothly, in conventional, is important to me.  Most modern RTR locos aren't really bad at it - they do it better than ost-war locos did, but they are not as good as Legacy and PS2-3 locos or those refitted with Cruise Commander, etc.  To me it is always worth the money to spend a bit more for a loco that runs well at low speeds.

BTW - the WBB Baldwin ten-wheeler, due to its gearing, runs very smoothly at very low speeds right out of the box. 

This is good to know. I wonder if the ERR commander lite would work well with a Lionchief version of the Polar Express? Does anyone have a video of ERR's lite in action? 

If it has a DC motor and space to install the ERR CC-Lite board, it'll run the train.  Obviously, for sound, you'd have to also use the ERR RailSounds Commander with it.

Right now the ERR CC-Lite is at introductory pricing of $50, and less through some forum sponsors.  Considering you pay $40 or so to Lionel for an R2LC, which is part of the package, it's like they're giving you the CC-Lite for free!

Last time I checked, this was the pricing through the end of the year, don't know if it'll be extended, but it clearly can't last forever.