Reply to "which transformer to buy Lionel or MTH ?"

Mike WyattOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Here's my $ .02. Most guys I know end up trying a few postwar Lionel locos, because they are fun. They add nostalgia and a low cost collectible factor, and I have found the kids even like the old ones with all the buzzing and ozone!! Nothing like 'em!!

So, IF you EVER think you might want to do that, and if you have only the DC power packs, you will be faced with buying a different transformer.

And (I hope) that almost anyone will never run the locos enough to kill a LC or LC+ loco with AC power, converted to DC, etc. If I am wrong about that, then I guess I will have dead LC+'s at some point.

So far- only failures out of 2+ years with my 5 or 6 LC's are from broken plastic gears on my early Pennsy RS-3. All of the ones with Bluetooth (and maybe even some older as well) have metal gears, so just the old RS-3 has had a problem.

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