mine was the GE Demonstrater bought in 1997. the horn is among the best diesel I have heard to date!

NO ENGINES. But i did tun a 2245PW at the Houston tinplate layout. Asked if this workes with conv. Answer yes. Home layout TMCC conv. TMCC as far as train control on the rails impressed me, but not the engines themselves

Don't have TMCC/L engines. And will not until Lionel makes engines which are ISO-9001 certified. If I can get ham gear which is ISO, why not CC trains? I have heard and seen too many CC engines act as if they were run by Gomez Adams. Guess Bachmann is/will be getting my $$$$$$.

I'm relatively new to Command Control, but for me it's the Lionel WP SD70Ace Heritage locomotive. Just has really great sounds, pulling power, and a nice paint scheme. I can't wait for the Lionel Genset coming out in September.

24k,

Great pics. The dude with all the hair is Jim Bunte. Jim is a very artistically driven guy, and was key at that time... as well as Dan Bigda and Callin ( icant remember his last name), both railroad guys (Dan worked for the B & M) and great modelers... they both worked free lance to build models for the Star Wars flicks.

Those were fun times.

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K-Line Scale Hudson. Masterfully detailed rendition of a classic loco.
After using it at train show, I never wanted to go back to conventional.

Bill, my sentiments exactly.

Mine was the Lionel B&O EM-1. I bought the model before I was into command control simply because I wanted a big B&O articulated. The model operated horribly in conventional mode and still does. Based on Jim Barret's recommendation, I bought TMCC just to get the thing to run better. The loco did perform better in command mode and I became accustomed to running trains that way.

Chessie Man,
I was looking at purchasing a EM-1. I have TMCC, however sounds like you are disapointed in it? Was it the sound, motor, etc. can you elaborate?
Thanks
JD

NYC Geep 2380 set from '96.

Great puller. Reliable and has a great RS sound. Still one of my all time favorites.

Without question Southern Pacific GP9.

Mike

I would have to say it was a Lionel Baby Hudson I received back in 1999,as an anniversary gift. It had command with signal sounds and was upgradable to railsounds and command which I did do. I have been hooked ever since!

JoeG

1949 Lionel electronic set. electro couplers, operating cars all at the touch of a button.

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Originally posted by J Daddy:
Chessie Man,
I was looking at purchasing a EM-1. I have TMCC, however sounds like you are disapointed in it? Was it the sound, motor, etc. can you elaborate?
Thanks
JD

I love the thing and it is my favorite. Just don't expect it to run good in conventional mode.

The problem was sound and cruise control. Without the battery installed, the sound at low speed was always clipping. I don't recommend the battery because lionel does not use the rechargeable type and you have to continually replace it. The cruise control, always on in conventional, had a tendency to reset itself to crawl speed no matter how fast you were running.

I have absolutely no problems running them with the TMCC package. Go for one and you will love it!

mth-dcs:the norfolk-southern dash-9 [in mikes first catalog with dcs].it took 3 nights at 2-3hours a night to get dcs to work for me ,but it was worth it.[i later found out the tiu had abad channelwithout dcs]

lionel-tmcc: the atlaso norfolk southern hi-nose sd-40[ took about 30 seconds to make this work].its my one and only tmcc,but i am impressed how easy and smooth this system works.my only regret,i waited until 2008 to get the tmcc .the biggest thing i dislike are the sounds in the atlas engine-kind of generic-it sounds like a geep-9or f-3.anyone know of a upgrade kit for better sound?-jim

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Originally posted by marker:
Mine was a 3rd Rail Santa Fe 5011 class 2-10-4.

Marker,

I have a new in box 3rd Rail Santa Fe 2-10-4 on order. I would like to know what you experience with this engine has been. Also, do you know of any PS-2 conversion done on this engine?

A couple of years ago, I told the wife it would be cool to have a model of the Coors Silver bullet from the commercials. She did some research and found that some company called MTH made one! Looked around and found Arizona Train Depot which carried MTH. Went to the store and he had a MTH 4-6-0 set on the store layout. When he saw me looking at it he fired up the DCS and put that 4-6-0 through it's paces, I was hooked! The sounds, the smoke, the cruise control and command remote all blew me away!. No silver Bullet, but I did walk out with a ATSF 4-6-0 starter set that day. I did get the Silver Bullet set about 6 months later and was blown away again by its ability to control its cars!

My first command control engine was a Lionel GE Dash-9. The engine has no cruise control and, surprisingly, I find that an improvement. The engine starts and glides around the layout without the robot-like cruise control.

Earl

I bought the Lionel Maersk husky stack set back in 2000...After getting it home I discovered that my dinky little 40W Lionel 1037 transformer couldn't power the thing. So I had two choices. Get a new transformer or upgrade the whole thing two TMCC/Railsounds. Since I wanted TMCC eventually I chose that route and never looked back.