@RailRide posted:Way back during one of the OGR York show-and-tell gatherings, when MTH first raised the topic of having to hunt down supplies of discontinued electronic components necessary for DCS remotes, after the presentation broke up, I went over to the Lionel booth and asked one of the higher-ups present whether or not Legacy was staring at that same potential problem. The answer was "Yes". Owing to a different architecture, their chicken has yet to come to roost, but as has been pointed out by those with actual experience sourcing electronic parts, that day will come eventually. Nobody will know when that is, until the manufacturer of some necessary component announces it's EOL.
---PCJ
I think your first sentence says it all: “way back during one of the OGR York shows..”
“way back” does not equal “Lionel is going to give up remotes too”
As someone pointed out, every Lionel ready to run train set has a hand held remote. On top of that, Lionel has two additional hand held remotes. Remotes at Lionel are not going away.
This is a current MTH problem, not a Lionel problem.
