LCCA General Crewtalk

I think the Lincoln General has dialog that goes something like this..."Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?"

I'd want the engineer to sound like Slim Pickens in "The Great Locomotive Chase".

And beforehand in the balcony, someone asked "How do you like the play so far Mr. Lincoln?...  DUCK!!!"

Guess no one has run them

got our generals today and couple of issues.  just to make sure I was not doing anything incorrect I ran Harry Potter and had no issues.

First issue, direction control is intermittent sometimes starts in forward sometimes in neutral sometimes in reverse.

second, no crew talk.

I am posting here to see if anyone else is having the same or similar issues, and we can discuss them.

yes Lionel has been contacted by email.

Should we contact LCCA also?

Just got mine today, but don't know when I will have time to set up a loop and test them out.

Andy

Wow Chris, these guys are after you!  hee

I think another crew talk says " I need a cow on the tracks like I need a hole in the he.... too soon?"

No talk of any kind. The bell and whistle work, other sounds

but no talk of any kind.

Maybe they just didn't do that much "talking" during the Civil War?

How about random samplings of Led Zeppelin's "Gallows Pole"?

The manual that comes with both the General and the Texas

has  crew dialogue that is activated by pressing the whistle/horn

button for "Stand by", "Clear for departure", and crew dialogue.

None of these sounds come out. What is wrong ?

I'm guessing that someone wised up and realized that radio chatter coming out of Civil War locomotives was anachronistic to the extreme.  Still, it would have been nice if the recordings were of chatter between the engineer and fireman.

Of course with this set, some custom sounds would have been really nice:

[from the "General"] "Hey Johnny Reb, we got your engine!  Neener neener!"

[from the "Texas"]  "I'm gonna git you Yankee, and your little dog, too!"

Andy

Andy, bring it to the Monoreville show for a test run Saturday and we all can see the General's run by.

Jack 

Great idea Jack!

I'm bringing my scale Polar Express and this set will let me give it a rest from time to time.  I'll have to dig out some W&A rolling stock to run with them.

Andy

Great song - Haven't heard it in years!

The General and Texas are stunning locomotives.  The painting on these went way beyond what I expected.  Nothing less than beautiful.  Nice job Lou.

As far as crew talk, it would have been nice to have locomotive crew talk like, "tracks are out up ahead", "we are gaining on them, more steam", well get those yankee's", or "stop so we can telegraph ahead"......etc.  This type of talk would have made the engines quite unique.  But the locomotives are done and delivered and there is nothing we can do about it now.  Just enjoy what was created, a wonderful set of great chase locomotives. 

TEX

Steve

it surprises me that LCCA has not responded.

I think it is the standard Lionel Crew  talk.  I don't know for sure.  

Lou Caponi will know.

Lou, please advise.

Al K.

How many Generals does that make for you, Andy?  IIRC you have one of each style made.

When it comes to 4-4-0 Americans, I have 4 different Lionel W&A "Generals", a Lionel UP 4-4-0, the Lionel Lone Ranger 4-4-0, the Lionel Transylvania 4-4-0, the Lionel W&A "Texas", an MTH W&A "Texas", the SMR W&A "General", the SMR W&A "Texas", and soon, the SMR W&A "Yonah".

I think there was at least one other company that has done 3-rail 4-4-0 Americans, but am fuzzy on the details, as it was before my time, IIRC.

Lionel, MTH and others have done quite a few other 4-4-0's, but I have no desire to collect them all.  I do hope, though, to some day pick up nice examples of all the Lionel Postwar "Generals" and the LCCA Halloween General set to complete my collection of Lionel W&A "Generals."

Andy

Ooops

found out today LIONEL forgot to put in the crew talk. trying to get the problem rectified. the instruction sheet shows the crew talk too!

thanks

louie

man no matter how hard we try or how well we do china has to stick it to you. thats their motto!

honestly i'm not happy. lets see what we can get worked out with the big L.

more info to follow

thanks

louie

Lou, did your production samples have the crew talk ?

yes. now i just found out all of us including me are activating it wrong. my sample was before the improved whisles etc.

i'm having a video posted today on how to activate the crew talk. CHINA claims the boards are in there.

hang tight ok

thanks

louie

something interesting. I disconnected my Legacy and TPC and ran the generals with just the transformer, everything is OK.  hooked back up the legacy and TPC and erratic performance from the generals but other conventional are OK.

this is what Lionel said about the railsounds/crew dialogue;

"Unfortunately we do not have a parts list or description for LCCA products.  You may want to contact the LCCA to have your questions addressed."

thanks. i find that interesting. everyday it seems to be something with these modern electronics

Can get crew talk from the General/Texan by a short press

of the whistle button."Dispatcher here, cleared out for me"

"Understood cleared outward bound" or"Rodger that take the green"

There is also a different whistle sound from the General

than from the Texan.

A short press of the whistle button when the General is

running will also give crew talk. There is so much noise

from the engine it is hard to tell what is being said.