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Reply to "Lionel RailSounds history"

Mikado 4501 posted:

RailSounds 1 was first released in 1989, and the reissue of the Pennsylvania B6 scale switcher was the first to try it out. It consisted of (now) spacious double stack boards that used a hall effect sensor with a magnet in one axle to speed up either the chuff or diesel RPM. The bell and whistle/horn were all the same in every engine that had it, but this system sounded a lot better than the Mighty Sound of Static Steam.

 

I agree with Mikado 4501.....RS1 was a tremendous advance over the Mighty Sound of Steam.....when those 1st boxcars were available with either steam or diesel RailSounds, it was an amazing change over what we had been used to!

Peter

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