Jerry, I have the Lionchief version, so give this a try. Run through your sounds, sitting still and then moving. While moving the 3 verses should repeat. Then, when you stop the engine, push the button again to play the last message. Just like the hero boy was getting off the train at his house as it was in the movie. See if that works. Otherwise you may have a problem with the engine. I don't have my layout running just yet, so I cant tell you for sure.
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I just ran my LionChief and the announcement in question plays while my engine is moving. But then again, I only have 2 announcements sitting still and I have 2 announcements while moving. I don't have the first gift of Christmas or tickets, tickets please. I have the first version of the LionChief.
Also, I didn't like what Lionel did to the boiler or tender bodies by removing the wires for the handholds. So I bought a conventional PE and swapped the boiler and tender bodies. Now it looks as it should. I may look at trying to swap the motherboard to a later version to get all the announcements.
