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Hello-  I just purchased a conventional Lionel Alco RS-11 (Pennsylvania, 8620) dark green/black.  It is used, nice shape, horn works but it not especially loud.  I have read in the forum and the magazine about adding Railsounds to various locomotives.  This would be my first attempt at this.  Any thoughts folks might share on the process, what would be needed (i. e. do I want to buy a standard Railsounds 4.0 upgrade kit, diesel dash-9, etc.)  Is this a project that one can successfully accomplish without experience?   Thanks, Todd B

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TRB,

 

This is going to be kinda difficult to do if you're not going to add TMCC...  There is the Railsounds Commander... But I've never used one (but GunRunnerJohn has!).

 

What I would do to simply add sounds to a conventional locomotive is just order the True-Blast Plus sound system for the RS3, it'll be close enough (than any EMD-sounding unit) and you don't have to change the control system.  I found it by Google, it is Bachmann part number 00253.

 

Check out some videos on Williams True-Blast Plus.

 

Thanks and good luck!

 

- Mario

 

 

All Railsounds boards work in conventional but with limited functionality. You will get horn, bell, and prime mover though.

Electric RR has a couple of boards for Alcos that might be close. Lionel has them as well but will cost more and be a more complicated to implement plus a larger footprint as three boards are required.

 

Pete

thanks for that info the CA gel sounds like a winner and before a permenant attaching I would test the mag and reed for proper operation too I don’t worry about the reed as it’s just riding on the truck but the mag could be subject to some track vibrations but i’m on fastrack and don’t run anything too fast so should work well

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