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<P>Kim,</P> <P>Glad to hear you bit the bullet on an LGB American Starter set! Yes, that series of sets are a great value. NOte that besides Santa Fe, they have NYC, Pennsy, White Pass, DRG&W and Union Pacific! My brother has the Pennsy Set. I really would love to pickup the new Union Pacific set.</P> <P>I just LOVE that LGB starter caboose - that is (so far) my Favorite LGB caboose. I think the freight sets are a little bit funner to have than the passenger coach sets. Especially for youngins.</P> <P>Note that you can add a sound system- complete with chuff, bell and whistle - to your set for about $155.00US. You don't need it now, but the 65000 series LGB sound systems really make the steam engine come to life. These are little black boxes with a volume control and leads to connect to the track/ power sockets on LGB locos. Quite simple to add to your engine--put the unit in the big spacious tender (coal car) and run the leads to the power sockets or wheels. The optional bell/whistle contact ($35 US) allows you to have remote control of bell and whistle from track contacts. Many Ebay stores have these systems- I recommend to purchase from a dealer and not a private party.</P> <P>Best of all, these are REAL railroad sounds - recorded from the 1:1 scale real thing - very high digital quality. You can go to the LGB.com / LGB.de website and look up the 65000 units and next to the item there will be a .WAV file you can download to get a sample of the sounds before you buy. There might be music in the .WAV sample, but that is only for copyright protection--the units don't play music in the background!</P> <P>Besides sound, the 99xxx series track packs are a great value to pickup! They give you sidings and switches (turnouts) for your train empire. One of the happiest moments in my LGB history was to buy a 5075n control box and one electric turnout /one manual turnout and had the layout on the living carpet, feeling like I was a kid again!</P> <P>Warm Regards,</P> <P>Tom M.</P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P>
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