Two legacy engines

Huh? That's a little vague.

Yes to both.  You can independently run two (or more) Legacy engines regardless of weather they are on the same loop or different loops with a cab 2.

 

Dan

Yeah, you can run two legacy engines on the same loop and on separate loops.  What you do want is for each engine to have its own unique engine id number.  It can certainly get pretty confusing running several trains on the same loop especially by yourself and as well as someone else, quite a bit of action.

 

Legacy is a great system if you do not have it yet.

 

Also welcome to the forum, there is a wealth of good information here.  Marty is very knowledgeable and a helpful forum member.

 

Have a nice evening.

 

Ken

Thanks very one . I purchase  Lionel legacy and diesel locomotive it s still in the shipping Box, waiting for my birthday October 4 to be open. Yea !

The whole point of command control is to run many trains at once. The engines should be assigned different IDs, and then all you have to do is hit ENG, enter the number of the first, then start, move it, then hit ENG again, the second number, start, move it, etc... to flip back and forth between running engines, just hit ENG, the number you want and the start icon and it'll bring it back up.

I'm unsure if legacy has an "All" function like DCS.

Beware of engine "99" do not assign an engine or accessory to "99" it functions as the all button.  Had a friend whose turntable was 99 and it caused havoc when we used it.

Dan

To flip between two engines, just hit ENG twice, you'll toggle back to the last used ENG number.  99 is the Legacy ALL number, it'll affect all engines.  I'm not sure every Legacy locomotive responds to 99, it may just be the more recent ones.

I normally run 3 MTH Proto2 trains with one Legacy train (Legacy has finer speed control at the speed I run my trains less than 20 smph). When I run two or more Legacy trains on a single loop, I set them as a TR to start them at the same time and then I access the engines separately to adjust the slack between the trains.  Note that this methodology does not permit the multiple Legacy trains to have an MU within one of those trains.

That is correct that 99 does not control all Legacy engines. 

Better yet, use 99 to address newer Legacy engines and they all will run and respond a the same time regardless of their number, it's an "All" command

 

example:  you have two engines with engine ID of 23 and 43, they are both on the track, input engine ID 99 and you can start them both up then switch to the individual engine ID's to control them separately

 

The only engine ID I never use is 1 since that is the default.

I seem to remember Jon saying that it was Vision Line engines that respond to ENG 99 in addition to their assigned number.

 

I recently helped out a customer that thought his layout was possesed because whenever he ran a certain engine four others would start running. When I changed the ID of that engine the exorcism was complete.

All recent engines using the newer Legacy boards respond to 99.  It's just not for VL any more!

When I run 2 Legacy engines on one loop, I will set them up as a lash up even though they are not lashed together. This prevents one engine from overtaking the other. Otherwise you may want to keep a finger on the emergency stop button. This is explained in one of the Legacy Manuel's. David