I do appreciate the help you folks are offering. That said, you're dealing pretty much with a rube. I have recently acquired both a Legacy controller and a DCS system. I am a beginner with both.
Specifics:
1/ Yes, that is the engine in question here, A Sunset/3rd Rail CP D-10 4-6-0.
2/ Bought off ebay. Reputable seller. Supposedly new, removed from box for test run only. Certainly looked new and un-run to my eye. No warranty.
3/ I initially DID run it in conventional mode with the DCS. Seemed pretty good but perhaps slightly given to uncommanded speed variations? Slight, no big deal. Not extreme. No racing! No slamming to a halt. Just enough to make you ask yourself “Hmmm . . . why not constant in speed?”
4/ When I got the Legacy remote, the hope was to run it in TMCC. I have not changed its ID from #1 yet. I am running three other locomotives successfully in TMCC with this set up, two Atlas and another 3rd rail. The other 3rd Rail was programmed by the fellow I bought it from. The two Atlas' I programmed and changed ID#s to their road numbers. They are all responding as I understand they should, i.e., their speed is controlled with the Legacy remote. I don't have to touch the transformer after electrifying the track to 18v, more or less.
5/ I was confused by some of John's instructions because references seem inevitably to be made to CAB 1 hand controllers and the Legacy differs. The reset procedure as described in the 3rd Rail manual also is written with a CAB1 in mind, not a Legacy. The differences are enough to confuse people such as myself who have never seen a CAB1 controller.
It also doesn't help that the engine does not have a switch for “RUN/PROGRAM,” even though the manual refers to one. It is actually labeled “ON/OFF.” I take it ON=RUN and OFF=PROGRAM. We won't discuss the difficulty of even getting to this switch. The access to it was not operable from the outside of the tender. I had to remove the tender shell to poke the access hatch from the inside to get to the switch as that hatch was stuck closed.
The reset procedure calls for [ENG] [1] [SET] – Whistle Blows then
[ENG] [1] AUX1 [8][3] Whistle Blows
The first sequence goes fine. Whistle DOES blow.
But, this is what happens when I attempt that second sequence:
Pressing the AUX1 button on the Legacy remote causes the numeric keypad to switch from numerals to icons! A sign that this is NOT the procedure in the 3rd Rail pamphlet. Counting to where the 8 and the 3 SHOULD appear, had they not switched to icons when that AUX1 button is pushed, and pressing the icons corresponding to the 8 and the 3 position has no effect. The engine does NOT respond with a whistle as the pamphlet says it should.
I attach an image of what my Legacy actually displays before and after pressing AUX1.
There is no icon for Steam with Smoke as John mentions either?
So, it likely is NOT being reset. I don't know what to do to get around this?