Reply to "Brand new to the hobby-need some guidance"

AflyerOGR Forum Member

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

Actually Legacy and DCC can co-exist.

One of the guys in our club built a harness to isolate dcc from ac with a switch. We ran it on our modular layout at a train show.

Aflyer

11/30/1612:42 PM

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