Trainsounds and Railsounds

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Hey Ya’ll

What is the difference between Trainsounds and Railsounds?

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Hello Steelrails! Trainsounds is a less expensive version of Railsounds without the Brakingsounds,Crewtalk,& Chatter. It is used for the $200.00-$400.00 Train sets and certain Boxcars under $100.00. Railsounds is used on Every Steam & Diesel selling for $500.00 and more.Take Care.

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Trainsounds does not require TMCC to trigger the sounds, it uses voltage shifts as well as the traditional bell/whistle button.

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I have both and heres the differences:

Trainsounds only generate one sound at a time, i.e. chuff controlled by train speed, whitle, or bell. This is not a big deal.

Railsounds can generate multiple sounds at the same time, like chuff, whitle, and bell all at the same time or in combination if you want.

Both have communications like engineer to yard, etc. In trainsounds it’s only heard by pressing the whistle button while in neutral.

Trainsounds is much simpler and cheaper than railsounds. Railsounds sound superior and cost more.

In our house, the boys prefer the trainsounds tender to the old post war tender with just an air whistle. For me, its the other way around…

Hope that helps.

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Trainsounds is the old version of Railsounds. When Railsounds 5 was introduced this past year, the previous version was labeled Trainsounds. I like them both, and since my new MRC transformer can’t make a mechanical whistle blow, I like them even more. I’m seriously considering getting a Railsounds boxcar.

Jim

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I love my trainsounds steam box car. It adds some sound to all my old trains without sound. The whistle in the tender and the box car often blow at the same time and I still like the sound especially the crew talk and chuffing.

I have an older lionel car with sounds for diesel. The only thing I do not like about it is it is a scale box car that looks out of place with my smaller rolling stock.

Jim H

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A piece of electrical tape wrapped around the tender’s pickup rollers would stop that whistle from blowing when the Trainsounds boxcar is being used. The steam sound boxcar is traditional sized and the deisel one is scale?

Jim