I look forward to the occasion, Tony…would be nice if the old fart out West could see it in his heart to come here with you…!!!
Of course there are other “OLD FARTS”, out West that I would welcome too, and even treat to a ceegar or three, along with a few fingers of fine holy water.
You need to find out about current rise times on a bulb not hot enough to glow.
You need to find out what the current failure point of your electronics are.
You can mess with it all you want.
If you, and you alone, want to encourage folks to blow their electronics up, be my guest.
I’ll leave you to it.
I won’t deal with folks who want to promote things they think they may understand, but have no place in current electronics.
I’m out of this disscussion.
If I remember correctly (and it has been 50yrs) my Lionel ZW transformer had a green and red light. The green light was lit when all was running. When my train derailed I would hear a click and the red light lit up. Is that what we are talking about?? Nick Jr.
As my Irish ancestors would point out “Gentlemen, this is a private fight, all non-combatants kinda step aside” 
Nick, you are correct but this discussion is exactly why I liked my simple setup, and my layout was small enough (measured in 10s of feet, not 100s or 1000s) that I didnt have to consider these big power issues.
Nick Peluso Jr said:Kind of, but without the click. Rather than have an overload of some type it is the automotive bulb that absorbs the short circuit current by lighting up.
If I remember correctly (and it has been 50yrs) my Lionel ZW transformer had a green and red light. The green light was lit when all was running. When my train derailed I would hear a click and the red light lit up. Is that what we are talking about?? Nick Jr.
And my KW has a clear bulb under red plastic that lights up when my 2065 goes off the track. The newer transformers have circuit breakers that go off to protect the electronics in the newer engines when the same thing occurs. (I think that is what the circuit breaker is for).
I hooked a light bulb up to my track, and it’s glowing. But there is no train to be seen. Do I have a short somewhere? Then I hooked a lithium ion pack to the track to charge it and it exploded. Now I’m really confused. Dave, where did my electrons go? I was looking for them. Did they leak out of my batteries?
OK OK, so I’m having too much fun.
This light bulb discussion reminds me of the large scale trains that ran from a wall plug with light bulbs to set the track voltage. I wonder how many kids got a nice jolt adjusting locomotive speed.
Early DCC users advocated the use of light bulbs because the early stuff was very sensitive to shorts and they released magic smoke easily. Later people found that putting a light bulb in series with a varying load made maintaining a consistent DCC track voltage impossible, and caused operational problems.
Regards, Greg
Wendell,
Back to the original question. There are those who believe that LGBoA is still in negotiations with Märklin, there are others who don’t think so.
The natives on The Family Feud are getting a bit restless, understandable since they made such an effort writing to “Deutsche Bank”. 
LGB® will have a Roll-Out on Sept 15 and 16 in Göppingen, they have also issued a info-circular to their customers, which I’ll translate ASAP since it has more interesting tidbits. 