Ok, so im a bit new at this all, and two things have caught my attention…
Railsounds
Railscope…
Basically, what it takes for each, what need to be converted (if it can be) and costs…and anything else willing to share with me…
Im like a sponge for knowlege here. Thanks For any Info[:D]
Well, there are plenty of RailSounds locomotives and boxcars out there, so just buy one of your liking and enjoy.
RailScope–in its original form–is long gone. Several after-market suppliers offer video cameras that can be mounted in locomotives or elsewhere, and which are technologically head-and-shoulders above the former RailScope. I don’t have any personal experience with those systems (I do have RailScope) so will leave that for others to address.
ok, so railsounds can be in a car seperate from the loco?
I think i may have seen tenders with it? Something about synchronized too, hows that work…Remember, treat me like i know nothing…actually, i dont, not about this…
Thank you for your info prior and many times after this.
As Alan noted, there are tenders and some boxcars featuring Railsounds. I have a tender for a steam engine that produces chuff and whistle sounds when activated by a sound button.
RS box cars have wheel sensors to pick up track speed and thus set chuff rate or Diesel RPM. There are new TrainSound tenders that use a different system to get sound into non sound equipped trains. These systems were meant primarily for non command control equipped engines so they do not have access to the full sound set a command equipped loco would have (aka there is no command control receiver on board to receive/interpert command codes), these units respond to track voltage/car speed and the bell/whistle buttons on the transformer. TrainSound units also use technology licensed from QSI and can react to voltage swings as well as DC spikes (horn/whistle presses).