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<p>Ah yes. The anticipation of sound.</p><p>You will probably take the engine out of the box.. perhaps a QSI DCC and Sound engine factory equipted Atlas, PRoto, BLI (NOT Blueline.. disregard for now) etc..</p><p>With the power off, place engine on track.</p><p>Power up your power pack... now here is the magic.</p><p>If it is a regular trainset power pack, you will need to advance the throttle and "load" the engine with about... 8 volts. Once that engine has the voltage, it will boot up like your computer does and go into it's sound files and start sounding like an engine at idle.</p><p>If you advance the trainset power pack throttle just a little bit more. By now you realized that you only have the top half of the throttle to drive it with. The engine will start off with wheels turning and appropriate sounds.</p><p>Very exciting.</p><p>With DCC...</p><p>Put engine on track, power up DCC and select Locomotive address 03 on your system. All DCC Factory equipped engines USUALLY respond to Address 03. Immediately your engine will fire up and make appropriate idle noises.</p><p>But beware.. once you go sound... you probably will never go back.</p><p>Enjoy!</p>
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