@gunrunnerjohn posted:I think a ton of people are REALLY missing the point! It's not that anyone (or at least me), expected Lionel to design or manufacture anything! My gripe is that they arbitrarily pulled all the TMCC and older Legacy electronic modules and disposed of them for what doesn't appear any good reason! Since they kept FAR more mechanical parts for those same models, the cost of inventorying the existing stock doesn't seem to have been a major factor. They were slowly going out of stock as their supplies ran out, and I'm OK with that, I realize they aren't going to tool up and manufacture more of the old stuff. However simply yanking all the parts and disposing them makes no sense. Worse, they didn't give Service Stations a heads-up so they could perhaps lay in some stock to support repairs for some period of time.
John, what did they do with the parts? Agreed, that seems arbitrary.
