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So my legacy powered F-7 Texas and Pacific A would not run, just sat in neutral. I purchased it from a nice national dealer so I sent it back and he said it ran ok on a Lionel transformer. I was using my MTH Z-400. It runs everything else Lionel that I own from my 1954 F-3 up to recent releases such as the T&P 557 2-8-2. I’ll test it when it comes back but if it won’t run on my Z-400 that’s a real downer. I’ll have to connect a Lionel trans just to run this engine. Anyone ever heard of this?

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Seems to me there have past reports of some Lionel engines that didn't play well with MTH transformers. Some operators have said their rule is when running Lionel engines, use Lionel transformers for best operation, and vice versa. In come cases people have talked about sine wave issues and differences between Lionel and MTH transformer output, but I don't recall the details.

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