Pretty sure they still work that way, and it's a giant PITA. I can't imagine why they didn't just key it to the whistle. I know they wanted to vary the intensity with the playable whistle, but they could have left that option and just run it full-blast when you just use the whistle. Makes it almost non-usable to me. They even had Lionel's method to copy from, which makes me wonder what they were thinking!
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