Legacy Lash-ups

let me explain an issue I ran across and was waiting for the Legacy users group at york questions to bring it up.

I have two legacy SD70's and  two legacy dash 9's.  I run the two dash9's as train 98 and the two sd70's as train 99.  I wanted to run the 4 together as train 97.  When I programed them as train 97 train 99 and train 98 did not work any more.  They stayed in the Legacy system but the engines would not recognize them. so I had to reprogram them to 99 and 98 after running them as 97. 

so I would believe that your friend would run into the same issue.

an issue that might need looked at, in the next update.

On newer legacy engines 99 is a default for run all engines. It recommended to never use 99 or 1 as engine ID's for this reason

I did not say engine 99 I said train 99.  in my post I did not mention what my engine numbers are, because the engine numbers make no difference in a lash-up, the point was a lash-up.  but just so we are clear the engine numbers are 13, 44, 51 and 19.

I may be wrong, but I have the feeling that an engine can only be a part of one 'Train' at a time. I base this on the fact that the 'Train' information is programmed into the locomotives when you build a 'Train' on the CAB-2.

If you do make one massive 'Train' that consists of all eight engines, you will have be aware that only the head and tail engines with have functioning head/tail lights, and that the horn and crew talk will only operate on the head engine in the 'Train'.  

So, although you could build them all into one 'Train', and then pick and choose as to which engines to run, you may loose lights and/or the horn/bell/crewtalk etc. unless you always keep the same head and tail engines.

Actually Nicole the engine can reside in several trains in the CAB2 but will only function in one of them at a time.  I believe you have to push "set" to activate that train but you can have it "pre built in the Cab2.  But you are correct.  The engine will only respond to one that it currently has been "set" to.  See page 62 of the current Legacy manual as I'm probably not explaining that very well.

As far as horns, in the latest few revisions of Cab2 and in conjunction with newer engines, you can have multiple units trigger horns within a Train.  It is really a fun feature.  There will be a little horn icon on the key pad to assign this as you add engines to a train.  Again not all Legacy engines do this.

I also believe the 99 address applies to Trains as well.  It acts as an ALL.  Not 100% sure though.  Seems to be I did a TR99 and 2 of my Legacy MUs (lashups) moved.

Just checked.  99 does not seem to apply for Trains only Engines.

Thanks for the clarification Marty. I did actually mean just the actual locomotives as far as being in one 'train' is concerned, but I failed to expand upon that enough. When I first started using using Legacy, I managed to confuse myself quite well, until I realised that you had to select the 'Train' on the CAB-2, and then press 'set' to re-program the locomotives if they were a constituent of multiple 'Trains' on the CAB-2. 

Thanks too for the info on using multiple horns, I'll have to have a play with that feature later on. All of my 'Trains' are set with only horns on the lead locomotive, as I reasoned that there was no crew to sound them in the other cabs.