@RickO posted:The "keyboard" is a touch screen. Everything has a touch screen these days. There hasn't been a car radio with buttons in years.
Certainly an update/ adaptation could have been designed. Maybe not at Lionels price point. The same reason they no longer power the trains with Pittman motors.
Agree with you. I think people assume that the cab 2 stuff become impossible to source, and then they decided to do Cab3. I think they started designing cab 3 long before the pandemic and figured that cab 3 would come out before cab2 was no longer available (ie stocks of cab 2, I assume they stopped making them before that time), and the pandemic screwed it all up. As I pointed out in another post, had they redesigned cab 2 we would probably have the same problem, lot of people prob assume when they say they couldn't get components it meant something simple , likely it was a custom ASIC or a touch screen or the like, and supply chain would have hit that too.
