Reply to "3rd Rail Locomotives and Z400 transformer"

This is really funny as TMCC and Lionel stuff is all chopped wave and thought to run better on it.  They may use higher peak if I remember correctly.

Z-750 and 1000 are electronic chopped with the 1000 typically a nicer curve if I remember right.

What typically is the issue is that Lionel likes a max of 18VAC track power and MTH transformer can deliver near 20 to 22VAC.  So you do not want full track power from a MTH transformer.  G