@Dylan the Train Man posted:Richard Kughn helped too. He and Neil Young teamed up to create Liontech in the mid 1990s. Liontech created TMCC. Legacy is fantastic, by the way. My favorite feature is obviously the quilling whistle/horn.
So true, Dylan. Thank goodness Richard Kughn came along and worked to get Lionel back on track again (no pun intended). I was into trains back in the 1970s and early 1980s, and then life happened and I got distracted. I was away from the hobby for almost 40 years! Back in August of 2021 I finally got back into everything. These modern locomotives have features that are absolutely unbelievable. I agree - the quilling whistle is just unreal. I am also amazed by all of the methods to simulate increases in locomotive laboring and chuffing. Just incredible. I LOVE it all! The thing that got me into all of the modern locomotives was when I went to an open house at a local model railroading club back in September of 2021. I couldn't get over how slow one of the locomotives was creeping along the track. It looked so incredibly realistic, and the sound was out of this world. You could never do that with postwar equipment. I asked the guy how the locomotive could just creep like that, so steady and unwaveringly. He explained the concept of DC motors to me and speed control, and I fell in love with the whole nine yards. I sold all of my postwar equipment and went 100% Legacy with locomotives. I just used a CAB2 yesterday for the first time on my own equipment and I was absolutely floored by what one can do with these modern locomotives.
