KOOLjock1 posted:People hate me for running my layout of Pre-War, Post War, Modern Era, TMCC and LionChief Plus off a 1949 ZW/KW combo with no added protection... but I've never had an electronics issue in over 20 years of operation.
Jon
I almost hate to comment on this post because I might put the kiss of death on myself but for whatever it's worth my experience has been similar to KOOLjock1's. I use the exact same transformer combo he uses for the same amount of time and have been running trains from all eras from pre-war to modern era TMCC and Legacy engines with nary a problem, so far. The only electrical problem I have incurred was on my Christmas Carpet Central Railway a couple of years back when a minor derailment caused me to lose my MTH Tinplate Traditions PS2 256 while using that "lightning fast" MTH Z4000 Transformer. So much for its quick acting circuit breaker. All that being said I will now remove all my modern engines from my layout and return to the simplicity of post-war railroading.
