I have a Lionel Norfolk & Western Mallet #1409. I've always had it programmed as #14. This morning when I went to put my Southern Heritage Diesel #8099 on the track, it's number is 99, the mallet started moving when the diesel moved.
The mallet responds to 99 & 14. I reprogrammed the number to 14, 1, it still responds to whatever number I program it to and 99? I trried to reprogram back to factory settings, still no luck.
Never ran across this one before. Any ideas?
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All recent production Legacy locos respond to ENG 99, in addition to their programmed ID. Folks asked for an "ALL" loco behavior, and ENG 99 was selected for this feature.
^^^ What Jon Said
It's a good rule to never use 1 or 99 for TMCC engines. 1 since that is default from the factory can end up being a problem similar to what you encountered when using 99.
Possible real world example which just might have happened to me a few years ago. You leave your engine to 1, then you go to your clubs layout and use TMCC and on a layout that never had TMCC on it before and suddenly 8 engines take off at once leaving one in the turntable pit. The club changed their rules to forbid the use of 1 after that
Thanks Jon
Jon and Chris, great info to point out. I am a huge fan of the 99 feature. FYI, the TMCC Cab 1 will also start a Legacy engine using #99.
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