Legacy Not connecting? WORKING NOW!

is remote and base synced on same channel number?  do you see red lights flashing quickly with each button push on the legacy base? are the batteries good in the remote what does the battery bar show 1-2-3 bars? 

does the legacy base have power?

has the one wire come loose somewhere at base or at the track common?  has the brake slider slid down some?

that's all I have to offer

Hi Paul and thanks for your reply.  All seems well now thanks - don't know what made a difference. I tried several things, checked the ground wire several times as that seemed the only 'variable' mechanically...

"We took it over to Lionel's service building and Dean swapped mine out for a 'new' one."

Well, now there's a reason to live in NC if you are into 3RO, I must say. Hard for me to "drop by" Lionel from the Gulf Coast.

(Maybe my decision to move back here after a short stint in Winston-Salem in the early Seventies was a questionable idea...and my cigarettes were cheap there, too. Hindsight - go figure. And I quit smoking in '93 or so, so...)

It's no 'hop skip an a jump' from here in the western mountains to Concord (3.5 hrs) but we had a nice time. Funny, but when I drive down out of here, everything seems strange...     Ca leb - give me another sip!

Sam you mentioned that you also had a DCS set. Assume you have the legacy ground tied to the DCS common post.

I had a similar problem with the Legacy set. The track is powered from a ZW feeding through the variable channel of the DCS set and the Legacy connected to the dCS common terminal. Legacy and TMCC engines started immediately in conventional mode. 

At first I  thought it was a poor connection of the legacy set so tightened it a bit and things worked ok. Several days later, same thing but this time sounds in the Legacy and TMCC tenders like a buzzing. Thought it might be arcing somewhere.  About a month later the DCS set failed , blowing a fuse on fixed one channel which did not have track power flowing through it. The DCS power supply I think is on fixed one internally. 

I removed the DCS set from the track power and the Legacy set with the ZW operated properly. The DCS set has since been replaced with anew unit. The one that failed was a Rev L TIU, latest design. 

I don't know if this experience was similar to yours but thought I would mention for your info.