Thank you to everyone for your responses and your experiences that came along with them.
I’ll come clean on a couple issues as to why I made this post.
First, I do own a Vision Line 700E, but have never run it. I have taken it out of its box to inspect it and make certain that nothing was damaged, but didn’t give it any run time. This is partly because I haven’t had the time to because of other obligations and currently I don’t have much room (even on the carpet) to properly run it and check out all the features.
I was asking about the 1-700E because I love older Lionel locomotives and it would have replaced the VL version that I currently have. As odd as it sounds, conventional locomotives and are more entertaining to watch and operate, even though a 1-700E can’t truly compare to 21st century counterpart.
Thank you once again.