Sorry but at the moment Legacy's equivalent name escapes me. I run MTH and Lionel engines. MTH Engines, when started, have that sort of wake up slow and get louder thing going on where Lionel trains jump to attention and are up and running immediately. Which one is more like a real locomotive when it starts. I have ES44AC engines, and one DDA40X.
Also, MTH 55 SMPH is fast, but so is Lionel's 15 SMPH. If I revved a Lionel to 55, well, do the words White Sands land/speed record and a tragic derailment with parts flying off mean anything to you.
Lionel doesn't kick in until 8 or 9 on the mph meter, where MTH almost moves at 1.
Once Lionel is going, you can dial back to 4 and that's creep mode. But it won't move at all when you first dial in 4. What gives?
I like certain features of both. I especially like how MTH engines have that engine RPM increase whine, but I do have to drop the volume on the DDA40 because it's like standing next to a jet engine. I know, I used to crew Blackhawk's. I like how Lionel's engines say, "that's if for us dispatcher, we're going to the house". MTH just powers down quietly and goes silent. Lionel's also go into panic mode if you shut down with any mph left on the scale other than 0. It's cute after you know why, but hat first time can be a shock to the system because your initial response is, "what the hell did I do!"
