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Dear all, I am considering purchasing a new Lionel sound and sensor boxcars, but I have a few questions.

Concerning the sound car:

1. Can I control it from a cab 1/2? Or is it conventional only? The catalog states that it "operates on any conventional or command control layout," but is it really command controlled?

2. If it is command control, what makes the vision line boxcar any better than the sound boxcar?

Concerning the sensor boxcar:

1. Would I be able to enter data into the boxcar to tell me exactly what engine it is behind? For Example, you hook up the engine to your computer and, using either new software or old software that I don't know about (yet) you enter the engine name, #, and other info into the boxcar.

2. If the above question's answer is a "no", how would this external sensor boxcar work exactly?

Thank you,

Nickstrains.

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I can help you with the sound car, but I don't know much about the sensor boxcar.

According to the description these are not command controlled at all. There is a sensor near the wheel that determines speed / movement and the boxcar plays all kinds of freight sounds based on that movement (they are very realistic in my opinion and sound really cool)

The Vision Reefers add a lot of triggered dialogue that can go on for minutes to hours depending on how long you want it to go, it also adds loading and unloading as well as brake sounds.

Hope that helps!

The Notch 6 catalog pod cast has your answers.  Basically:

Sound car: it can not be controlled.  It has an on/off switch and manual sound control.  The car does a variety of railroad sounds when the car is moving.

Sensor boxcar: you put in the engine TMCC number (not sure how) and when the boxcar crosses the sensor track a signal is sent to the engine to perform the pre-programmed function. Works with both Legacy and TMCC engines, so l assume the engine must be capable of performing the function. 

CAPPilot posted:

Sound car: it can not be controlled.  It has an on/off switch and manual sound control.  The car does a variety of railroad sounds when the car is moving.

How will the sound car be powered?  By track voltage through center-rail pick-up rollers, or by a rechargeable battery?  I'm assuming the same way as the previously-released reefers, but I'm not familiar with how they work either!

joeyA posted:
CAPPilot posted:

Sound car: it can not be controlled.  It has an on/off switch and manual sound control.  The car does a variety of railroad sounds when the car is moving.

How will the sound car be powered?  By track voltage through center-rail pick-up rollers, or by a rechargeable battery?  I'm assuming the same way as the previously-released reefers, but I'm not familiar with how they work either!

Track voltage through center-rail pick-ups.

CAPPilot posted:

The Notch 6 catalog pod cast has your answers.  Basically:

Sensor boxcar: you put in the engine TMCC number (not sure how) and when the boxcar crosses the sensor track a signal is sent to the engine to perform the pre-programmed function. Works with both Legacy and TMCC engines, so l assume the engine must be capable of performing the function. 

If it's still similar to the pre production model we used for the Legacy Users Group demo last April, for TMCC engines it will ID it as it rolls over a sensor track for the LCS app but will not play a pre-programmed action like grade crossing.  To do that you will have to create a recording using the sensor track so when it plays back, it plays back TMCC commands.  All the pre-programmed sensor track actions are Legacy commands.

For the older non-sensor engines it works just as a later model.  At the time there was no fuel read out so I'm not sure if that will be added.  For both TMCC and Legacy engines, it assumes the ID of the engine you pair it with so yes it will ID a TMCC or Legacy engine on the LCS app as it rolls over the sensor track.

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