Interesting discussion. Now, please try to figure out why this new loco will not run (stays frozen in neutral) when running with Conventional mode and the main smoke unit is turned on.
It runs fine when the main smoke unit is turned off.
My dealer is sending mine back to Lionel to hopefuuly figure out and fix.
My dealer had three of these babies and they all refused to run in Conventional when the main smoke unit was on.
Legacy, no problems.