Legacy issue

Hi Bill.  Would you happen to have the Lionel product number available?  Thanks.

just out of curiosity instead of using the wheel did you try increasing the boost button, when one of my engines didn't respond to the wheel it did respond to the boost.

Bill,

If its a 6-18064 then you likely have several problems, one of which is old, hard-as-a-rock grease, which is not a Legacy problem.

Mike

The product no. is 2131570 and its a New Haven Mohawk engine number 3507. It does respond to a boost command but only for a few seconds.

Is the train brake slider on the left side of the remote pushed up?

@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:

Bill,

If its a 6-18064 then you likely have several problems, one of which is old, hard-as-a-rock grease, which is not a Legacy problem.

Mike

The OP says "In conventional it runs ok ."

It would not run well in conventional if the old grease was rock-hard. I don't think grease is the problem here.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

The OP says "In conventional it runs ok ."

It would not run well in conventional if the old grease was rock-hard. I don't think grease is the problem here.

MELGAR

Sorry to ruin the flow.  Just ignore my post since it clearly doesn't apply at all.

Mike

Bill I have no answer to that I hope someone will be able to help, Im fan of the new haven too. someone will be able to help.  I know I just finished laying track on my new layout and legacy acted on its own, sometimes worked most times did what it wanted. would not respond to wheel but did to boost, sometimes would take off when applying track power even though never addressed engine and sometimes would come to life applying track power but just sit there.Another issue I had was I think the traction tires must be old and left a residue .on the outside rails could barely see it but enough to affect legacy cleaned it up had use sandpaper to get it off cleaner wouldn't work. lol but now its working just don't give-up.

Thanks for the suggestions fellas. I will try Lionel on Monday. The Mohawk was purchased new from Mr.Muffins trains about a year ago.  The brake slider is about 1/3 down from the top. Hitting boost does make it jump.  Scottyhubcaps, interesting you are from Wallingford. I was raised in Meriden and still have family there. The New Haven line had many great locomotives running on it daily back in the 50's and 60's including DL109's FA's and PA's, RS's 3's and BM's to name a few. The NH also ran as a practice, combinations of heavyweight passenger cars along with American Flyer coaches and stainless. Occasionally they might mix in a maroon passenger car which was meant to go to Penn Station,  Bill

@Bill Park posted:

Thanks for the suggestions fellas. I will try Lionel on Monday. The Mohawk was purchased new from Mr.Muffins trains about a year ago.  The brake slider is about 1/3 down from the top.

Why is the Brake slider down? I'd try it with the "brakes" off. Have you tried a reset via the remote?

A you referring to a complete new reprogramming of the engine?  I have tried that.

Bill, I'm not sure if what I'm about to say is helpful. I don't have the Legacy system, but I have several Legacy engines that I run using the LionChief Universal Remote. There is no special wiring and no programming involved and the basic features (speed control, whistle, bell, announcements and electrocoupler(s)) work fine using the LionChief Universal Remote that only costs about $50.

Maybe the LionChief Universal Remote could be a good stop gap measure pending the time it takes for you to run your Mohawk engine again using the Legacy system.

One more thing: your Legacy engine may need to have Bluetooth in order for you to be able to use the LionChief Universal Remote.

Arnold

I have a problem every now and then with the wheel not operating correctly. It’s always been that somehow the speed limit is set to where it won’t let the wheel make it move. I press the engine button then I see the speed limit at bottom right. I press it a time or two and the the train will move.
obx

Turn off the brake slider to start

Bill , I don't have that engine yet, plan to can't afford it now. but I remember reading something about a bluetooth switch has to be turned off in order for it to work correctly, does it have switch to anything ?

oh ive been a mailman in Meriden for 36 years grew up in wallingford.