I have an older Lionel GP 9 NYC with railsounds. Not tower com or crewtalk. Can I upgrade this loco to have this without adding expensive boards? Is it possible to Flash it up?
Georgia Railroad,
Welcome to the forum[#welcome] This group should be able to help you with your question. I don’t have any command items and am not sure. I would think that you would need the boards, but again, not sure. Do you live in GA? Myself and several others on this forum are from GA. I think we have more people here than train stores in this state.
Dennis
Sounds are stored on a socketed chip. You will need a chip puller to swap chips and will need to note the orientation of the chip. You can replace the chip with a different one. Contact Ed Bender of Digital Dynamics about possible alternative chips.
GeorgiaRR,
Have you done a TMCC reset yet? I have some older engines with first or second generation TMCC/Railsounds that occasionally lose sound, the reset fixes them every time. Good Luck.
Tim
Original sound sets did not have TowerCom/Crew Talks. These features were added later.