MTH Subway sets Lo-Vs and R-9s

Classic Toy Trains Forum
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How is the sound system on these sets? Do the motors sound like the REAL THING?

(prototype)

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Welcome Red Line. I know of one here in Chicago - which I will forever call the Howard-Jackson Park line… I have heard good things about the MTH sound-sets. I have also heard the Lo-Vs in person and found them impressive. That said, I’ve not heard the originals [;)]

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I’m sure the Chicago sets sound fine, but the Lo-Vs and R-9s motors

had a Whine to them that made them unique. most interurbans also

had that same sound. ( the gearing of the traction-motors)

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Hey does’t anyone else out there have, or know anything about the sets?

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I have the Green Lo-V set and love it. I’ve never heard the proto so I can’t answer your question. The subway sounds, as with any of the other sound loops become repetitive, but the random stopping along with forward and reverse sequencing is fun to watch, IMO. If you can get a sound byte of the real thing, I think there is a way to record it into PS2, but not sure if you’d get the variable revs corresponding to the throttle.

For what it’s worth.

Stack.

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Thank you Stack for your input, I will probably buy the sets anyway, especially

since MTH did a good job of making them based on the prototype.

Now that Lionel decided to throw it’s hat into the ring and making subway

cars, (the R-26 in the 2006 cat.) it will be interesting to see how they stack

up against MTH.