Reply to "Installing Front & Rear Headlights for a Lionel 520 Boxcab"

Mike H MottlerOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Don:

Thanks for those tips.

I have a metal horn and bell that I intend to add to the roof of my Lionel 520. I'll also add clear plastic lenses to cover the small LEDs that I'll soon install inside its headlight housings. I have a horn/bell sound card and speaker on hand, but it's too big to fit inside the small 520 body shell. Acoustic realism has limits ...

I intend to use the 520 loco to pull a non-motorized track cleaning car around my L-shaped layout. I'm toying with the idea of hiding the sound card and speaker in a following car equipped with pick-up rollers wired to the sound card. Two Lionel Sound Activation Buttons (already installed on my L-shaped layout) would trigger the horn/bell sounds anywhere on the layout.

Although it would probably be easier to buy a K-Line boxcab via eBay, it would be more fun to DIY.

Mike Mottler
mottlerm@gmail.com

2/19/193:29 PM

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