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Railsounds Box Car?
Posted by srguy on Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:08 AM

Can anyone tell me what is required to operate a Lionel Railsounds box car properly?  I'm considering adding steam sound for my PW 2055 w/ a KW transformer.

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Posted by Seayakbill on Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:43 AM

I have the B&O steam sound boxcar and a the Frisco diesel sound boxcar that I run with my conventional trains without sound. At least on my layout, I don't have to do anything, when I apply power to the track, the locomotive sound starts up and the Whistle / horn / or bell becomes operable. I run my conventional trains through MTH DCS so I am not sure if there is anything else required if not using DCS, I wouldn't think so.

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Posted by srguy on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:31 PM

Got it ... being that I use a KW with the horn function built in, I assume a bell activation switch would be required to activate the bell sound. Just curious ... on your steam engine, do you get 2 whistle sounds ... one from the tender and one from the box car?? Is that how it works??

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Posted by dougdagrump on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:33 PM

If you use the KW you may have to add a "standalone" whistle/horn activation button. 

Hopefully someone can "chime" in, no pun intended Clown, on this subject. 

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Posted by sir james I on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:39 PM

Only thing you need to add if you want both whistle/horn and bell is a second sound button. Easiest to use is the Lionel 6-5906 activation button.

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Posted by Seayakbill on Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:09 PM

on your steam engine, do you get 2 whistle sounds ... one from the tender and one from the box car?? Is that how it works??

I there is a whistle in the tender I do get two whistles, one from the tender and one from the boxcar.

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Posted by srguy on Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:13 PM

OK ...  I've had success making homemade whistle/bell sound activation switches .... so far so good and did this because my Lionel 5906 died. Second ... is it weird sounding with the two whistles going off at the same time?

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Posted by Seayakbill on Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:42 PM

It certainly gives off a different sound but I wouldn't consider it weird. Better sounding than the PW beep beep horns.

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Posted by jwse30 on Saturday, December 17, 2011 5:19 PM

For the whistles anyway, if having two of them sounds odd, you could put a piece of tape around the pickup roller on the tender. If that won't work, possibly find a way to wedge it up off the center rail, or snip the wire coming off of it.

 

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Posted by sir james I on Saturday, December 17, 2011 8:41 PM

Just put tape over the round hole on the bottom of the tender. That will keep the fan from drawing air for the whistle. Easy to remove as well.

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Posted by srguy on Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:28 PM

good thoughts ... thanks

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