I know this was covered for the first two a couple of years ago, but can’t dig up the thread. Anyway, with some sets now boasting RailSounds RTR, I was wondering if someone could lay out the differences between these three.
I can comment on both and tell you the difference.
R-T-R Prime mover sounds, Great horn, Bell, Crew dialogue while locotive is running, Crew dialogue while in nuetral, and no squealing breaks.
Regular Railsounds: Prime mover sounds, Great horn and bell, Crew dialogue in nuetral only, squealing brakes. Battery for shut down sound
Trainsounds: Crew dialogue when in nuetral, Horn and Bell, Squealing breaks, similiar to railsounds but weaker and not as robust.
As you can see there is not much diffrence but I like squealing brakes so that is my personal preferrence but most don’t care.
Now if you want all the passenger sounds mumbo jumbo you need to go the MTH Protosound route. This is just my two cents.
Kev
Trainsounds is single channel, RailSounds is multi-channel. That allows you to have prime mover sounds (or chuffs) and have the wistle and bell all at the same time. With TrainSounds, when one sound is triggered, the background sounds are silenced.
Kev, and John
Great Input., sorts it out.
So the main difference between the 2 flavors of RailSounds is that the RTR has crew dialogue while the train is running, and the Original has squealing brakes?
Gald to see this thread … I purchased a Trainsounds box car (mfg 2007) used from Ebay a while back and it seems to have a mind of its own. When in neutral I get crew talk, a great horn blast and bell when activated by the transformer (KW). When in motion, the horn sounds on its own. The diesel sound is good and works all the time but I can’t activate the horn or bell while in motion.Any ideas of what is wrong here?
You have a loose or broken wire. Inspect the solder areas very closely. Had the same issue on a TS Tender.
I have Trainsounds both steam ands diesel and have had them since they were first released. They still do quite well and remain impressive. For those which are improvements, it just proves we ain’t seen it all yet
Dirty track or wheels/pickups will also do this.
Finally got around to checking out the connections … the wires to each roller contact were not secure. Soldered both and while I can control the horn from the transformer, the horn still sounds on it’s own from time to time. Am I missing something?
If all the wiring is secure and there are no hardware flaws, typically two things will cause this.
As I mentioned previously, dirty track is a favorite. Another cause is the electronically controlled transformers, the non-linear waveform will sometimes fool the bell/horn circuitry into triggering.
Transformer is a KW … cleaned the roller pick-ups and the wheels are clean … will have to clean the track and see if that’s the problem. I also have a steam railsounds boxcar that works perfectly on the same loop of track … go figure