American Flyer Legacy

If you set it up properly all of the buttons cause the engine to react.  Each Legacy engine comes with instructions on setting it up.  Look at them to see if you followed the process.

My PRR ES44AC is set as engine 81 in my system. It is configured as Flyer Pullmor Diesel, Legacy operation, Legacy Railsounds. (3 separate settings.) I have 15 icons on the main screen and 13 icons on the Speed screen, all are functional.

You have the right settings, but if you are not seeing the on and off soft keys after entering the engine number, then something is wrong.

I have 2 of the AF Legacy ES44AC and they operate exactly the same as an O gauge Legacy engine.  Select the engine number, press info, and scroll through to make the selections.  I set mine as :  DSL, LEG, LRS.  I get all 15 keys.  Where are you finding the option "Flyer Pullmor Diesel"?  Those engines don't have Pullmor motors.

Aux2 turns the lights on and off.

I finally found the "Flyer Pullmor Diesel" option.  Doesn't appear to do anything different than the normal DSL default setting.  I see the same 15 keys in the FPD option.

Chuck K posted:

You have the right settings, but if you are not seeing the on and off soft keys after entering the engine number, then something is wrong.

Chuck, I can see all the segments have icons in them, but at first it seemed all of the extra ones not shown on page 16 of the manual did not function. I have continued operating and I believe now that they are working, in some cases I was just not sure what some of the icons did.  I am getting better at this.  Thank you.

JFC454 posted:

I finally found the "Flyer Pullmor Diesel" option.  Doesn't appear to do anything different than the normal DSL default setting.  I see the same 15 keys in the FPD option.

Yes, it's FPD.  I did try the DSL label also and had not found anything different so I switched it back to FPD.

I want to say thank you to everyone for commenting and helping me get up to speed.

Hello all of you smart enough to run Legacy....Our own ES44, came in from Train Z...and for 20 seconds I could tell that it had a more satisfying l sound system than that of the first offering....BUT then , the loco became a quiet and slow  running diesel....But, well 20 seconds was something.....I do not have TMCC OR LEGACY, so stand in wonder as to why this condition persists, ( as did the no smoke feature on the Flyer Y-3,, but an otherwise excellent slow speed loco,,,,,really fine.........And to Dave, the great engineer, ,,,is there or are there people around you sensitive enough to correct the sound on the Berkshire.....You know, the whistle sound on the flyerchief berkshire...etc....Id like to know if you would like to discuss this, or even the topic of updating the Hudson as you did the Berkshire...and yes, I know that there are a zillion hudsons out there,   but none so fine as ;your present berkehire......You ha ve done a great job......ARNOLD KLOIAN   master of details... 

If you use the iPhone App to control the FC Berkshire there are more adjustments available than with the Blue handheld controller. Even with the APP adjustments however it does not sound as good as the Legacy engines.

Carl Tuveson is currently converting my Berkshire to TMCC/Railsounds. If you want an almost Legacy quality engine that is the answer. There is a video on Carl's website of the completed conversion.

Any AF Hudson can be converted to TMCC/Railsounds; Ed Goldin, for one, does these conversions. If you go this direction a Legacy base and Cab2 is advisable for operation. Alternatively, many scale operators have converted Gilbert engines to DCC.