David Shapiro posted:Rusty Traque posted:Just remember: As of now, ONLY the SD70's and ES44's were sold with DCC compatibility built into the Lionel electronics code. The steam locomotives and U33C's require conventional AC or TMCC/Legacy to run. (And they run much better on TMCC or Legacy.)
Rusty
Well, I started to research that as well. It seems that Legacy and DCC can't co-exist, unlike DCS and Legacy in O-scale. Another pity. If I had to choose between the two, given the equipment that's available, I'd go Lionel/AF.
David
DCC compatibility was developed specifically for the Flyer SD70's and should be in all future Legacy Flyer locomotives. Someone at Lionel realized the scale folk didn't particularly want to buy the U33C's and to pay for electronics they were going to have to remove.
The reason DCS and TMCC/Legacy co-exist is more by accident than design. Lionel had released some information back in the early TMCC days for the computer-savvy hobbyists and MTH took full advantage it.
Rusty
