@RickO posted:I've suspected this. I'm no expert such as yourself Lou but it always seems to be certain folks with multiple failures.
The common denominator, the(cool) old affordable postwar transfomer.
To be honest in most cases it's operator error that kills the bulk of electronics. It's extremely rare, especially so for Lionel factory TMCC era electronics, to just fail on their own accord. I've even seen some R2LCs where the smoke triac was overloaded so badly the triac unsoldered itself from the board and fell off. I soldered on a new triac and the R2LC was good as new.
