Now if we could just get them to offer 2 rail wheels the journey to the dark side would be complete...I wonder how hard they would be to 2 rail?
The issue would probably not be the installation of the 2-Rail scale wheel sets, but more about the internal electronics since the Legacy/TMCC system might not lend itself to a simple slide switch for 2-Rail (DC power) or 3-Rail (AV power).
Lionel has put Legacy electronics in their S scale engines that can run on AC,DC,DCC,TMCC,or Legacy. So they can do it if they want to. Perhaps some day?
Lionel could easily make the same exact models that operate in the same exact space but on 2 rail track. Only the long 3 rail history holds them back. 4 years ago I got into S because I thought they were going to give us Legacy engines on 2 rail track. They did, but then they gave up. I just wonder how long they can keep NOT offering 2 rail? The vast majority of younger modelers that I know are in HO and N. I've asked a lot of them why they don't consider Lionel and they almost always say that they think Lionel makes cool toys, but they can't take 3 rail seriously. As the Boomer generation fades will there still be modelers that want 3 rail trains? We shall see. I never would have thought we would see fixed pilots and Kadees though, so maybe there is hope.
