I'm looking at purchasing a Legacy engine that released in 2008 but I vaguely remember there might have been challenges with the later made #990 Legacy systems compatibility with the earlier locos. Can someone confirm or deny this or point me to any existing threads please. I did some searches but couldn't find anything, appreciate the help.
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No. I've never heard of any.
I have the JLC Big Boy from the very earliest days of Legacy and have had no problems at any point.
The ability to upgrade Cab-2 and Base-2 software in the field should have taken care of any issues that would have come up. As far as I know it did exactly that because all Cab-2/Base-2 software versions from 1.0 through 1.6 have worked just fine for me, although I haven't tried 1.7 yet.
Mike
First I'm hearing of any compatibility issues and I've been in it from the start of Legacy and beyond.
I have a number of early Legacy locomotives, both steam and diesel. They run just fine with the Legacy command system. I'm with Marty, I have never seen or heard of an issue like this.
No problems here with the early Legacy engines and the 990.
Great news, thank you all for your feedback.
What's the loco in question? I have the Legacy M1b from 2008 ,6-11147.
I purchased it nos a few years after it was cataloged.
The Legacy remote wouldn't turn off the doghouse light on the tender. However, this was an issue with the locomotive itself, not the Legacy 990.
I contacted Mike Reagan who was at Lionel at the time. Sent the loco in and the repair/modification was made free of charge even though it was beyond the 3 year limit.
Now the Legacy system (remote & base) itself didn't work very well for myself until around v1.4 came out, but that had nothing to do with the Legacy side of the engine. Works great ever since.
Jim
My two oldest Legacy diesels are an AC6000 from the 2009 catalog and a SD40T-2 from 2013. Never had any trouble running them with CAB2. The only peculiarity I have noticed with these early engines is if you build a train and one of these is a trailing unit being run in reverse, you have to use a train number of 9 or less. Greater than 9 and both units will sound their horns. Train ID number 9 or less and you can have only the horn in the lead unit sound. If the trailing unit is running in the forward direction then any train number may be used and only the lead unit horn sounds (unless you select both to sound).
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