Ok, who hates the new electronic bells!!!!!

[BigJim]

If you mean the timer, not the entire bell, let me know how it's done. Maybe I can talk somebody in the Loco shop into doing just that.

[Randy Stahl]

What I really hate is EMD's automatic bell (and the idiots that thought it up) that you can't turn off. It keeps ringing for quite a while after the ditch lights quit flashing. After 134 miles of that crap, I am sooooo ready to climb off that engine.

There are ways to turn them off ... I think you need to same key that you need to get 4400hp from an NS dash 9.

[BigJim]

What I really hate is EMD's automatic bell (and the idiots that thought it up) that you can't turn off. It keeps ringing for quite a while after the ditch lights quit flashing. After 134 miles of that crap, I am sooooo ready to climb off that engine.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

The electronic bells are horrible! Thry sound like fingernails on a blackboard. they should be banned from the railroad scene.

I would suggest that you get up early one winter morning after four inches of snow fell the day before and help the carmen clean out the bells on the cab cars before the morning rush hour.

[WSOR 3801]

WSOR 10C had an electronic bell and a brass bell.  The electronic one is mounted over the conductor's head, and the brass is mounted below the engineer.  Guess which one I use?

You all seem to forget about the gong bell on the nose of CNW units.  Can't hardly hear that one inside the cab.

Sometimes in winter all you get is click, click, click.  Other ones go into turbo mode: CLANGCLANGCLANG 

WSOR 4009 (ex-MILW SD40-2) used to have electronic bell.  Soo and MILW were big on them in the 1970s.  It got replaced with a mechanical bell, mounted on conductor's side, right above and behind the window.  Some guys don't like it..

[kevin hill]

I HATE all electronic bells on crossings and on locomotives but mostly on crossings because not only do they sound bad they are way to quiet! with a mechanical bell installed you could still hear them loud and clear in your car with the windows up now(at least with the ones where I am) your lucky if you can hear them at all with your windows up or down so I see electronic bells on crossings as a safety hazard! Just my opinion.

[CPRail modeler]

Lemme just say one word about that bell;

BARF!!!

The traditional bell sounded WAY better than that! The traditional bell also looks good on CPR diesels, mainly the old high hood units.

DEATH TO THE ELECTRONIC BELL,

DEATH TO THE ELECTRONIC BELL,

DEATH TO THE ELECTRONIC BELL, etc.

[magicman710]

Zugmann, that doesnt really sound like a good reenactment of a electronic bell.... Heres a better one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0YszgD2FA

 

[zugmann]

Nothing like the sound of a mechanical bell: 

click..click.......dingdingdingding....click...click..........................................ding..............click

Better learn to love 'em.  They are here.

[espeefoamer]

The electronic bells are horrible! Thry sound like fingernails on a blackboard. they should be banned from the railroad scene.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

The sound may not be the same as a cast bell, but they don't plug up in the winter.  Considering where most cast bells are mounted these days, that can be a real issue in the parts of the country that have four seasons.

[silicon212]

Love 'em or hate 'em, get used to 'em, 'cause they're here to stay.  They are pretty reliable, and with no moving parts, takes away a lot of chance it could cause an FRA defect.  You will be seeing much more of them in the future.  They don't bother me.

[magicman710]

I hate them things!!! I mainly see them on NS, and they drive me crazy!!!! Here is to banning electronic bells on all locos!!!!!