Train-or accessory-related.
I’m partial to the doors-opening sound when a sound-equipped WesternHobbycraft trolley stops.
Saddly, the greatest special effect on my layout right now is my mouth yelling “OUCH!” when I bang my head on my benchwork. I still have no running trains yet and spend most of my time crawling around on the floor laying wiring. But soon…soon…
could it be when my ns sd80-mac takes off and you here the coupler slack…or it could be my spooking sounds halloween boxcar with the cackling witch and other sound effects… I cant choose only one. I love it all…
John
Doug,
Not sure if this is what your looking for but, I like to turn off the room lights and run trains with just the headlights,signals and building lights illuminating the scene.
George
I don’t have any special effects on my current layout, but I do admire all of the special effects done by Lionel inventors over the decades and later toy train companies. The ice platform is my favorite, followed by the milk jugs, which often miss the mark. LOL!
With the growing interest in Halloween these days, I’d like to see a thunder and lightning effect. Or maybe someone makes that already? I dont think they do.
The one that gets the “WOW!” from visiters is my Dept.56 Fireworks when the room lights are turned off. Joe
Visitors enjoy the animated playground and the gang crew working on the rails. I enjoy those as well along with the animated original news stand and the operating street light changing from green to yellow then to red. All the sounds are always fun to listen too. Soon I need to find a digital camera to take some video.
Would have to be all of the effects that came with my MTH subway set. The station announcements, the doors opening and closing and the troubleshooting and dialogue between the motorman and the conductor remind me of going to work with my farther as a kid when he was a motorman for NYCTA.[:)]
Quiteness of carpet. [;)] When I have several diesels running and they are “thundering” while pulling a big load.
Uncoupling any where on the track with TMCC.
The American Flyer 779 Drum Loader. Simple, fun, reliable.
Jim
Uncoupling anywhere on the track without TMCC…
The flickering lights of the hobo campfires.
My PW Coal and lumber loaders.
My sound equiped locomotives.
Watching my guests touching the cantenary wire to see if there was really electricity there.They were amazed to see the train would not run when I would lower the panagraphs.
MTH’s House-A-Fire with two Pumpers, Aerial Ladder and 14-15 Firemen and victims. Water now runs from underneath the house and up thru the hydrant across the street and then back thru a drafting hose to,and thru, a Pumper’s panel and out a manned hose line on the other side, up a manned ladder to an attack Nozzleman and in the window.
([:(] but it is still mounted on plywood and on the floor instead of the layout[:p]).