Ok, well I’ll chime in! [swg]
Zeke, you can use your zw.
Operating Conventional(non tmcc) locomotives only
You need a Powermaster or track power controller(tpc)
You need a command base and cab 1.
Operating both conventional and command equipped locomotives.
You need all stated above.
Operating only TMCC locomotives.
You need a command base and a cab 1.
Controlling the entire layout switches, accessories, and routes from the cab 1.
You need a sc-2 switch and accessory controller(controls up to twelve accessories or six switches.)
Accessory switch controller( controls up to eight accessories or four switches with ten routes).
Operating track controller(lets you remotely control remote controll track and uncoupling track).
Block power controller(acts as a rotary switch to allow you to route power from and powermaster or tpc controller to your blocks of track.
Hopefully this will help zeke, if you have anymore questions, post them.
Also, your zw acts as the power sourse for the whole layout, but by having tmcc, you control the engines, switches, blocks, ect. by the cab 1 instead of using the throttle, switch levers, remote controll track sections buttons.
Let me give you Lionel’s analogy for tmcc: “Track power is like gas in a car, it gives you the power to go but doesnt tell you how fast or where to go.”
Basically, if you was to run only tmcc locomotives, you plug in the command base in an outlet, hook a wire from the command base to the #2 clip on a lockon or the ground post on the transformer( in your case a pw zw), turn th
