My father purchased the new GG1 2332 Pennsylvania passenger set( absolutely beautiful set) for my son for his 1st Christmas ( don’t worry, I only take the set out of the box for Christmas set up on the layout and painstakingly put them back in their original boxes and packaging after the new year, trying to teach the “Look but don’t touch” approach until he’s old enough to understand why I put them back the box!) and I am unsure as to what the sounds are supposed to sound like. The train is run on Fastrack and powered by a 50’s(?) era ZW transformer with the whistle/direction button. When I hit the whistle button the horn sound is three slow short horn bursts. Is this correct? I know I have to get a sound activation button to make the bell work but should I just get two new buttons for the sounds? Will the whistle button on the ZW damage the GG1 sound component? Any info would be helpful. Thanks!
No damage using the ZW, as for the funny acting horn I’m afraid thats the way it works. Lionel changed the horn board on later engines but the GG1s have that funny acting/sound horn.
I don’t have the new Lionel GG1, but my Williams version plays the standard 4 burst whistle sequence of 2 longs, a short, then a long (until the train reaches the crossing.) It is the letter “Q” in Morse code. You can buy a bell activator if you want, but if you are going to get some other controls, such as TMCC with a CAB-1 remote, they provide the bell sounds even though the PW ZW doesnt have the bell feature,
The original 2332 had a dreadful sounding horn/buzzer and no bell.