Which of your Locomotives have sound?

[Flashwave]

Well, I;ve got a Proto2000 E-8 in Pere Marquette, Heratige 0-8-0 in Harbor Belt, a PCM T-1, and a Big Boy with sound. There's a pair of BL2s from proto that will get sound,l as well as a Spectrum George Washington Mountain, and a set of RF 16s that will have sounbd in the 6000A A-unit, and then will be plugged in the diaphrams to speakers in the trailing units so the sounds are spread and balanced, and I save mucho moolla in Sound decoders. There'll prabably be sound in the Bachmann Daylifght soon too. And I'dlike to put sound into a berk for the Polar Express, when I get the engine. Ah, to dream 

[HEdward]

Which of your locos have sound?

None.

 

Can't wait to get it built so I can start saving up for the DCC upgrade.

[Phoebe Vet]

I have 8 engines and one subway set.  Two of them have sound ... so far.

[Bapou]

One o my Spectrum NJT F40PH-2s has LokSound, it is great!

[DavidGSmith]

I have one BLI 2-8-0 On30 with sound , its alright but if you look close the chuffs are out of sync.  I also have the Bachmann Forney (On30) with sound it is much better to my ear. When the On30 4-4-0 comes out with sound I will get it most likely. Operating on other layous with numerous engines with sound can be a bit much. The volume must be turned down.

Dave 

[twhite]

Frank--

I'm DC also, and I have several BLI steamers with sound.  Unfortunately, it takes so much power to get the sound working on these locos (they're DC/DCC) that it's impossible to run them with my non-sound DC brass locos (by the time the BLI's are moving, the straight DC brass is rocketing around the layout like the Kentucky Derby), so I don't use them very much, unless I'm planning on running ONLY sound steam.  Unfortunately, none of the 'sound' locos are for the railroad I model (Rio Grande) so when I run them, I run them only as 'loaners' from other railroads. 

For a sound system (since I do like sound), I settled on a 'fixed' sound system with speakers under the table and a Soundtraxx "Heritage Steam" unit.  It's very Generic, though a lot of special effects can be programmed into the unit.  The drawback of course, is that the sound is constant and not moving with the loco.  I haven't really looked into it, but I'm hoping that some manufacturer will take pity on us poor DC'ers and come up with a tender-mounted sound system that will work.  Actually, there may be one out there, I suppose with all of my other projects, that I haven't really looked that hard. 

But I do like sound--it makes the railroad come ALIVE!

Tom  

[rolleiman]

I have 6 with sound (DCC). 2 are BLI locos, one is a genesis set (yes, with the MRC sound), 3 are set up with various types of Soundtraxx decoders. That's out of about 60 locos. Get more than 2 or 3 of these things fired up and it becomes more annoying than pleasant.

[MisterBeasley]

"Get one sound engine and you're hooked."  Yup, that sounds about right.

I bought a Proto 0-6-0 with sound, and then added sound myself to an Alco RSC-3.  Next was an SW-8 switcher, which I found with sound at Walthers for $100.  Then, it was a BLI Hudson, again purchased with sound.

I just finished adding sound to a trolley car, using a downloadable Digitrax sound decoder.

Next, I'll probably look into adding sound to one of my GP-9's.  They don't get much action anymore, unless, as you suggested, they're consisted with the Alco to make some noise.  I'd also like sound in my S1, but that's going to be a tight fit.  (The SW-8, a similar engine in size, needs traction tires to make up for the low weight of an engine filled with a speaker and electronics.)

The old, old, noisy Athearn F7's probably aren't worth it.  They're too noisy all by themselves.  The subway cars can't be heard, as they spend their days in the tunnels.  The other trolley, maybe, and the other Geep will likely get sound in the future if the first one comes out well.

[da_kraut]

Hello everybody,

One of my locomotives has sound that works while the engine runs on DC.  This has me hooked.  So the question for to all of you is do all of your engines have sound.  The other option is to have only a designated few locomotives with sound and then take one of these engines into the consist to give the lash up sound.  

What is your experience.

Thank you

Frank