GenesisFan99 posted:Back again with more questions. I recently had a rude awakening that product I purchased may only function under command control. So after reading a bit, I'm curious how Legacy and TMCC are wired. Is it just the 1 ground wire from the base to one outside rail or are there more things involved? I thought I read somewhere Legacy and TMCC require a special wall outlet or something.
Genesis;
Not sure what the product you purchased is, but you should probably check out the manual (I know, real men don't need instructions, but sometimes it does help 
) - most TMCC/Legacy engines I've purchased do have the capability of running in conventional mode, usually by a switch somewhere on the engine.
As for the wiring, you are correct, the Cab1 (TMCC) and Cab2 (Legacy) bases require one additional wire to one of the outside rails. But you need to keep in mind that, if you hook up TMCC/Legacy, you can not run conventional without some intervention. As my title below suggests, I admit to being a techno-peasant, so I am not the one to discuss running conventional engines on a TMCC/Legacy track (suffice to say some of the modern Lionel power sources have a switch which allows you to run TMCC/Legacy OR conventional).
On the subject of your arachnid problem, if you can't displace them, you could always build a Lavalantula layout!!!
Best of luck with your new layout.
