Norm Charbonneau posted:I still can't believe you cannot customize anything about Legacy sounds and controls without having to resort to dealing with their service department. Think of all the money they could save in service calls if they even encoded a few whistle choices. At least with TMCC you could pop in a new sound ROM. I think Legacy is just about completely dead at this point. It has really nice motor control but it's not much better than aftermarket ERR stuff. It's just bizarre that you can't upload different sounds and control features to your new engine in this pretty much post-tech era. Their stuff is like a throwback compared to DCC. 3 rail used to have a bit of an edge with easy to set up and use command control stuff but now it's just corny.
Although 'customizing' the whistle might be the ultimate selection from a purchaser's perspective, another simpler alternative (for both potential purchasers who are not that technically oriented and Lionel) - at least for the high end locomotives - would be for Lionel to include a 'sound byte' (on their website) of the intended whistle in their description of the features so that people would be able to determine - in advance of any pre-ordering - whether or not they wanted to purchase that particular engine. I seem to recall that Lionel did this for some high end engines a few years ago (which I thought was a good idea) because like MIKADO 4501, the whistle sound is a make-or-break deal issue for me too.
