Lionel All Hallow's Eve Loco Sounds

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I’ve just taken delivery of a new Lionel All Hallow’s Eve locomotive. It looks great and seems to run more smoothly than my Harry Potter locomotive which it is based on.

I am having trouble coaxing all of the ‘scary sounds’ out of the thing. It is supposed to have a werewolf howl for the whistle, a scream for the bell, and a witch’s cackle for the brakes.

All I can get is the scream for the bell. It is the same whether I run the locomotive using my Legacy / TPC combination or a CW80. The scream swaps between the whistle or bell button on the CW80 when the ‘neutral’ terminal on the CW80 is swapped between the center rail and the outside rail - as it should.

Running the locomotive at high speed then suddenly slowing does not produce the witch’s cackle.

The general background ‘scary sounds’ work just fine. In fact, I wish there was a volume control for them.

Anybody else seeing this problem with their All Hallow’s Eve locomotive?

Another conventional control locomotive I have with bell, horn and brake sounds operates as it should.

I think I’ll have to make a call to Lionel Service and probably end up sending it back.

Thanks.

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Update on this subject.

I ended up sending the tender into Lionel service. It just got back today. The repair summary said that the instructions are incorrect.

Turns out that the scream operated by the whistle button and the random assortment of ‘scary sounds’ are all that the tender is supposed to do.

The werewolf howl and witch’s cackle are not controlable as decsribed in the instructions. These sounds are instead included in the ‘scary sounds’ that run when power is applied to the tender.