Phil McCaig posted:Thanks, guys. Didn't realize that MTH had made a Premier GP20. Anyway, the one I looked at on their site was a Railking Scale version with 3v Proto 2 in Burlington livery. The horn is the big deal to me and I guess I am maybe fixated a bit too much. The other thing is that on a GP20, the dimensions are the same as a GP7 or 9 and the low nose bangs into a can motor and so can't slide the body back into position on the chassis. I modified a Williams motor mount to allow the can motor to tilt backwards at about 10-12 degrees and it just clears now. Believe, me it was a ton of fiddling to make this work without having the gears binding up. If I never find a proper sound file I guess it's the way the cookie crumbles. I have a Lionel GP30 which I really like because it does have a great sound set dedicated specifically for Burlington 945, which the dispatcher calls out clearly. It doesn't get much better than that. Anyone know if it's possible to have a set custom made and installed on a sound board?
The version I demonstrated was Railking as well. MTH's Premier version is from 1996; the Railking Scale models use the same tooling. The problem with sound files is that, at least in 3-rail, the manufacturers use different file types for their decoders. With MTH DCS, you can record and play back custom sound files (like the Crewtalk dialogue you want) on your own, but you need the DCS system. As to writing sound
files onto the locomotive itself, that's a question for a service tech, but I don't think it can be done with DCS or Legacy. Of course, if you really want the most accurate sounds possible, and maybe custom recordings, you may want to look at O Scale DCC sound decoders that can be programmed, like the ESU Loksound L or TCS 501.
This is the link to Digitrax's instructions for uploading custom sounds: http://www.digitrax.com/sound-depot/. I think they make an O scale-compatible decoder.
