@Bill Grafmiller posted:I saw an article on Google that stated homes in the USA post war , that some were AC and others DC so lionel made the products to run on both. If that is a fact then why does it make any difference what system you use?
I think I'd have to see that Google reference, by 1945, there were no DC power being supplied on the power grid in the USA. The only reason Lionel made DC stuff was to be cheap, it cost less than making it run on the more universal AC transformers.