As promised Will Allen has written up the summary for the Legacy User’s Gathering…
Friday’s Lionel Legacy Users Group Meeting started shortly past 8:00 AM and ended by 9:30 AM, and a lot was covered in that 90 minutes.
After introductions, we handed the floor to Fred Standa, Lionel Legacy beta tester and owner/operator of a 2,000 sq. ft. layout in his basement in western Iowa (Fred lives about an hour east of the Omaha/Council Bluffs area). You know Fred as “FRED’S TRAINS” on the OGR Forum.
Lionel CTO Jon Zahornacky could not be at York for this show, and Jon authorized Fred to spill the beans on the new features and the fixes in soon-to-be-released Legacy version 1.3.
Fred’s extensive report was augmented by an occasional comment from Mike Reagan.
Here are the highlights of Fred’s report:
MAIN OPERATION: ENGINE QUEUE
Cab-2 has an “engine queue” in it. This means that when you have an engine or train that has not reached its target speed and you de-select it (that is, change to another engine or leave the main operating screen), the “engine queue” in 1.3 takes over controlling the engine or train in the background up to, or down to, the target speed you set.
Currently (beta version) the engine queue runs up to 6 engines in the background.
MAIN OPERATION: TRAIN BRAKE CHANGE
The Train Brake operation has been changed in order to accommodate the request for more effects controls, but the standard of operation has been maintained. The Train Brake speed range has been adjusted: Under the new operating scheme, the Train Brake’s effect on speed and the laboring sound has been split. Only the lower half of the Train Brake slide impacts speed of the locomotive, while the entire range of motion produces the laboring effect.
MAIN OPERATION: SPECIFIC ENGINE TYPES
Additional types have been added to the Engine Info. To select these additional types you can utilize the "More