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@bigkid posted:

MTH on the other hand went totally proprietary,Atlas had to in effect buy part of the business to be able to produce PS 3 engines.  They made money with the control system, it meant you were locked into PSx engines from them ( since no one else could make them).

At the time there only being two players in the command control market, MTH did offer TMCC control via their DCS control system. Mike Wolf even said in an OGR article (Run 172 - Page 26) that the commands to run DCS will not be made public long before the system was on the market. However, MTH did offer PS2 & 3 upgrade kits early on so that users could retrofit DC-driven locomotives to run DCS. TMCC upgrades are nice (and much more expensive) but don't offer the Legacy level of features that PS3 upgrades do.

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