Gentlemen,
I love both DCS and Legacy, it took me years to add Legacy to my DCS Multi-Level layouts. I did not even own a TMCC Base & Cab1 or Cab1L & Cab1L Base.
However when Lionel came out with FTCC Switches that all changed immediately. I was using FasTrack with old 711/072 Switches, and running my Tin Plate via DCS, Switch wiring and all. That all changed with the addition of both Legacy and the Cab2 and 072 wireless plug and play low voltage FTCC Switches. I am so addicted to the FTCC Switches that I recently purchased a 2nd 990 Legacy unit.
I do believe in the Future Lionel will bring out wireless FTCC/PSC Switches, meaning FasTrack Command Control, with Power Siding Control. These Switches will not only control where your train runs, via the turn outs, it will control the power delivered to the different sidings or areas of your layout, via power on/off control, directly from the Legacy HHRC via the advanced Switches.
These are just some of the dreams I had as a boy while running my Trains, I have now lived long enough, to see some of them already come to life. Hoping Lionel & MTH engineers continue making my boy hood dreams come true. IMO running both systems is the only way to take full advantage of all the different modern Engineering advancements in our hobby.
PCRR/Dave
Construction on the new Train Room Continues.
