Railsounds/Proto Sounds Question

I think its more about bening able to control the sound of the whistle, and quill it yourself. The earlier railsounds had different types of whistles but it was all preset with the push of the whistle button. With the Legacy slider whistle you have much more control.

Alex,

Thanks.  I knew there had to be a plausible answer.

Bill

Actually some of the better railsounds sets especially just prior to legacy almost had a "quillable" effect to them. A loco sitting idle usually had a lower less powerful whistle tone, an a quick push and release of the button yields a short "toot". Once the loco gets under way the tones become more variable depending on how long the button is held down and how fast the loco is moving, a faster moving loco yields a longer more powerful whistle blast like one you would get for a crossing.Most railsounds locos have three different whistle tones they are just variable based on speed as opposed to progressively selected like legacy quilling. Non quillable Mth PS2 locos typically have one tone and thats it, and the only choice you have is how long that tone lasts depending on how long the button is held down.

Some of my TMCC locomotives prior to Legacy have the features Rick describes, but you can't control them like the Legacy sounds.