Our Lionel Legacy speed steps just don't seem correct. Ths slow speed is much too fast and the moderate speed sends the loco flying around the track. Is this adjustable?
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I'd probably consider posting this in the TMCC/Legacy forum.
To answer the question, no that is not normal, at least not for any of my Legacy locomotives.
Are you sure you're using Legacy mode to control them? What exact locomotive are we dealing with, more than one?
We have a #267 s-3 and 1361 K-4. Both operate the same way. I think it is the control, not the engines.
I think John maybe on to something...what is the control type for the engines?
Well, both engines are Lionel Legacy being powered by a Legacy control. As an example, 3 arrows per the manual is 35MPH while 4 arrows is suposed to be 50MPH. At 3 arrows the engines register 50MPH and at 4 arrows it runs at 70. Seems that the icons are out of sync by a notch.
Speed steps are not miles per hour. Speed step 100 is about 40 smph (at least on the diesels it is). If you're reading the number on the legacy screen, it's not scale mph, it's the speed step, of which there are 200. If you have mth dcs, set a dcs engine at the speed the Lionel manual says it should be (for example, 3 arrows @ 35 mph) then try to match it, and see if it's close or not.
The fact you have 2 different engines behaving the same leads me to believe they're working just fine.
Thanks for the explaination. That makes sense. We are used to running DCS where the readout is in MPH.
