Originally Posted by raildog:
It does not have command or railsounds but some kind of sound.
Hi guys,
I think the real difficulty here is that this is NOT a TMCC engine. If it was Mark could do a reset w/ TMCC or Legacy and get back to good. Unfortunately, if what Mark wrote is correct, his engine has sound and speed control but is conventionally controlled, like this ARR SD70MAC.
Personally, I never saw one of these non-command engines in person. However, I do have experience with the TMCC versions. As Sasquatch indicated, it was sometimes difficult to get the K-Line command engines to accept their speed step setting (32, 128, or 256). Once they were set the speed curve was non-linear so the engines took some getting use to. One of the best I ever ran was a K-Line 2-truck Shay set at 128 steps. It would creep beautifully and had excellent speed control up to about 15 smph. Once you got it dialed in right it was quite good. IIRC, some of the technology that was funneled to K-Line by Lionel's then engineer, Marty Pearson, was the cruise control design which was being developed for Legacy. These late K-Line engines have speed control that is far better than anything Lionel ever put in a TMCC engine prior to Legacy. I'm not sure how much things changed between the K-Line Cruise designs and what Lionel put into production for Legacy (Odyssey II speed control), but if you have the two apart there are some obvious similarities, such as the tach wheel.