Reply to "Toy Train Time capsule reflecting on the last twenty-five years"

We will never know, but I have always felt if Lionel and MTH tried to work with each other instead of against each other, the hobby would have come out a lot better. If they could have worked on a control system that would have run each other's systems or rather just one system, as I would probably have considered buying MTH engines, I already had TMCC and was not willing to go and purchase another system. I enjoy MTH freight/passenger cars and some of their accessories. I still wonder how it might have worked with each other instead of fight with each other. For some reason, I feel it would have helped each other.