@MartyE posted:I'm always amazed at the people who know what the inner workings of a company are. I mean we've had more than one Lionel representative explain to us the reasoning behind moving from the Cab2 to the app but folks somehow know more than the company representatives.
I don't think most of us assume we know more about the inner workings of Lionel, but perhaps some of us know quite a bit about electronics manufacturing and parts procurement. I spent many years in an industry where designs had to last a minimum of 20 years will full support, that made it quite a challenge to keep up with the rapidly changing parts landscape, so I get why Lionel may be reluctant to continue supporting the CAB2.
Is it possible to build functionality equal or better than the existing CAB2, even assuming that the existing parts are unobtainable? You bet, it happens all the time. To be sure, manufacturing a CAB2 clone may be more money than Lionel is willing to spend, especially with the bean counters in charge of every dollar, that's probably more of a reason for the existing path of development.
You also assume that you're getting the unvarnished truth in all the gory details about the reasoning. 
