Jonathan, thanks for the background. I poorly worded one sentence, what I meant was just switching from Legacy to a DCC control system offers no improvement. Gutting the engine and installing a TCS WowSound decoder is a big job and something few operators would do or should have to do. Even so, the gear ratio is still wrong. At speed step 200 the engine should not be at 200SMPH! My TMCC versions run at about 90SMPH at TMCC speed step 100. Speed step 40 in R100 mode with the TMCC version is the same speed as speed step 17 out of 200 on the new Legacy version. Lionel should have addressed this. No point in comparing these to the O gauge engines, they are not even close. No HO DCC operator would tolerate this kind of performance. I hope that if Lionel releases a Legacy Mikado they address the gearing. They can do it, the latest run of U33C's/U36C's have a perfect operating speed range, unlike the first two runs of the U33C's.
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