Is it just me or Is Legacy.........

This has not at all been my experience with Legacy.

My experiences with Legacy have been most pleasant. I love its ease of use and reliability of operation. 

When running in command at 18 volts, with Legacy you could have mud on the track and the trains should just glide through.

I have never experienced any of your observations and I run lots of legacy engines.

Legacy is the best..

Joe   

Well, I've always expected it would be, and have an impression the answer is yes from the experience of friends.  But turthfully I have no first-hand proof of this because I firmly believe this, and thus use this "fact" frequently as just one more excuse to only use the only control system I will ever use: the one that runs all trains from all manufacturers - conventional.

BTW - I was wavering - thinking of getting a Legacy system, but see my review of a ZW-L - with it I see little reason to now.

Lee you don't know the power of the dark side!

I have 2 Legacy Engines and one on the way from TrainWorld as I write, both engines had to be repaired for smoke problems right out of the box practically, and of course there is the Legacy Shay problem lol! But DCS is been known to be quirky also to some folks, both are fun to play with, and the emphasis is on play with lol!

Make sure the gears are lubed.

There is a bit of a learning curve as with all systems, but I have had no problems with the Legacy system or Legacy locos. Works as advertised.

Now I have had two CAB2's die on me for absolutely no reason - but's that's a different story. The Lionel Service Center was kind enough to replace them at no charge so I really can't complain.

Ken

Can you offer examples of what you consider touchy or easy to confuse.  Being more specific about your problems could produce better responses to you question.

My reason for asking is since the Legacy engines will run slower, they are more prone to finding dirty track or drop out points in switches, loosing power and having to be restarted.

Don

I have nine Legacy locomotives, only one has had to go back to Lionel, the PRR Duplex T1.  In general, I've had good luck with both Legacy and TMCC locomotives.

For example, Here are problems I am experiencing which has never occurred under TMCC.

I stop an engine.  Shut down and power off,go in the other room.  Come back power up track and then engine. Engine starts up but won't move. Place TMCC engine in the exact spot power still on and tMCC engine drives away no problem. Scrub track in that exact spot Legacy engine goes. Pushing buttons to fast is another problem. Slow down and things work properly. Engine stopping out of nowhere.(Members have told me this may be due to my transformer. May need a new chip which I have ordered). 

If you have a ZW-C, there is a new chip for those that fixes a Legacy incompatibility.

My Legacy system and Legacy locos all run just fine.  No touchy, quirky, etc...

I've had TMCC since it came out so adapting to Legacy was EASY.   No issues.

It just works.

I run Legacy and DCS with MTH Z4000's and I find these systems to be excellent.

Alex

I would like to know if the original poster used a CAB-1 TMCC? If so then that might explain how he feels using the new Legacy remote. For instance if the momentum setting is set to react quickly he might be feeling that it is touchy along with the controls for the features and direction do have different buttons and the feeling is different. It just takes getting used to and once there will not go back.

at our club we have found that MTH would fit this. 

not legacy.

make sure your track is clean.