Steam Lash up

Yes.  The Berkshire with TMCC will need to be the lead locomotive with the Legacy Berkshire following.  The consist will be a TMCC consist so you will lose the Legacy features of the Legacy locomotive.  If the Legacy locomotive is the lead engine it's a Legacy consist and the TMCC engine will not respond.  You might want to check their speeds before creating the consist.  One engine may be faster than the other.  If the Niagara is Legacy it will have to be the following locomotive. 

Neal Jeter 

A LASHUP?  Use a lot of rope.

Good grief.  How I hate that term. I will never understand where the manufacturers came up with this silly name.

As for steam locomotives, it's called a DOUBLEHEADER, not a "LASHUP"! 

Thank you. The Niagara is going to be a TMCC engine. I'm seeing what different type of steam engines will run double headed together.

@Rich Melvin posted:

A LASHUP?  Use a lot of rope.

Good grief.  How I hate that term. I will never understand where the manufacturers came up with this silly name.

As for steam locomotives, it's called a DOUBLEHEADER, not a "LASHUP"! 

AMEN!!!!

Now do you have to have the Odyssey speed control on or off when you doublehead?

How can "Lash-up" be such an offensive term, when all the professional railroaders that I know talk about "Tying down"...
...as in "We tied down for the evening"
Does one tie down a locomotive like one does an aircraft?
What kind of rope is used to tie down a locomotive?

@Bryan Smith posted:

How can "Lash-up" be such an offensive term, when all the professional railroaders that I know talk about "Tying down"...
...as in "We tied down for the evening"
Does one tie down a locomotive like one does an aircraft?
What kind of rope is used to tie down a locomotive?

Back when I volunteered at IRM, when we put the locomotive away for the night, we wrapped a chain around the throttle to prevent it from moving inadvertently as the locomotive was still under pressure and could potentially move.  Hence, "tying down."

Rusty

@Bryan Smith posted:

How can "Lash-up" be such an offensive term, when all the professional railroaders that I know talk about "Tying down"...
...as in "We tied down for the evening"
Does one tie down a locomotive like one does an aircraft?
What kind of rope is used to tie down a locomotive?

In addition to what Rusty just posted, steam locomotives were "tied down" within engine terminals and roundhouses, with chains (used as wheel chocks) in front of and behind drive wheels, as well as opening the "House Valves". Thus, another use of the old railroad term "Tying Down", which also grew into "Tying Up" and the end of your trip or work shift.

@Lionlman posted:

Yes.  The Berkshire with TMCC will need to be the lead locomotive with the Legacy Berkshire following.  The consist will be a TMCC consist so you will lose the Legacy features of the Legacy locomotive.  If the Legacy locomotive is the lead engine it's a Legacy consist and the TMCC engine will not respond.  You might want to check their speeds before creating the consist.  One engine may be faster than the other.  If the Niagara is Legacy it will have to be the following locomotive.

Neal Jeter

Now do you have to have the Odyssey speed control on or off when you doublehead?

Not only is the expression "tied down" physically accurate, it harkens back to railroad terminology that developed in the 19th century, using horse analogies. Locomotives are put in a "stall" in the roundhouse.......like horses.  etc.

@Rich Melvin posted:

A LASHUP?  Use a lot of rope.

Good grief.  How I hate that term. I will never understand where the manufacturers came up with this silly name.

As for steam locomotives, it's called a DOUBLEHEADER, not a "LASHUP"! 

I have not seen any MU connections on any steam engine.  But there was in fact a Road that tried it.  There was a write up in Classes Trains some time ago.

Ron

@BigS06 posted:

Now do you have to have the Odyssey speed control on or off when you doublehead?

That depends on what year the TMCC locomotive came out. If my memory serves me well, locomotives that were made with RS 4.0 and 5.0 were equipped with Odyssey speed control 1. Whereas, everything below did not. For legacy locomotives, it does not matter since they were upgraded with Odyssey 2. Long story short, I would say yes, you do need to keep the Odyssey speed control on in order for both locomotives to operate in sync.

Also, since you have a cab 1 command base the Legacy locomotive should automatically be programed as a TMCC locomotive. As stated in another comment, you won't be able to get all of the features of a Legacy locomotive; one of those features being the 200 speed steps.

BigS06 wants to doublehead his TMCC Berkshire with his Legacy Berkshire.  But first he wants to know if he can electronically 'lashup', the term used by the manufacturers, the two engines and if so how.  Because we have a lot of folks here that do not have a railroad background, nor study railroad history/terminology but do read their toy train manuals, I think the term will be around a while.  Hopefully nobody bursts a blood vessel over this.

Also, per the PRR, lash-up needs to be hyphenated.  Maybe we could get Lionel to at least do that.