Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
I've spent a couple of days this week sorting out some of the higher functionality of ESU LokSoundv3.5 decoders to get them to 'coast' properly. Which has gone very well and this evening I shall be playing with the sound profiles of a couple of other locos (0-gauge British stuff) to get them sorted too. Just in time for the LokSoundv4 to hit these shores at the end of this month
The test loco is a scruffy Proto 1000 F3a; not a bad model apart from the lack of a crease down the front of the nose. This has been fitted with a few details (it'll be sprayed up as a GTW version when the decals finally come out!) and has been fitted with a speaker enclosure I designed some while ago. It works pretty well.
Anyway, in the process of digging out this loco I started rummaging through the boxes of US stuff and thought about adding sound and a couple of details to an Atlas GP7 for a mate's St Louis South Western (SSW/Cotton Belt) layout. It's operated as freight only, so I have the dubious honour of providing the passenger locos: a GP7, 2 PAs and an FP7. Fortunately all have been produced as rtr models with the Athearn Genesis FP7 coming out last year.
So I then hit the books, rummaged through the details boxes and the quick job (replacing the handrails and fitting a SoundTRAXX 'Tsunami' sound decoder has turned into this:
The test loco is a scruffy Proto 1000 F3a; not a bad model apart from the lack of a crease down the front of the nose. This has been fitted with a few details (it'll be sprayed up as a GTW version when the decals finally come out!) and has been fitted with a speaker enclosure I designed some while ago. It works pretty well.
Anyway, in the process of digging out this loco I started rummaging through the boxes of US stuff and thought about adding sound and a couple of details to an Atlas GP7 for a mate's St Louis South Western (SSW/Cotton Belt) layout. It's operated as freight only, so I have the dubious honour of providing the passenger locos: a GP7, 2 PAs and an FP7. Fortunately all have been produced as rtr models with the Athearn Genesis FP7 coming out last year.
So I then hit the books, rummaged through the details boxes and the quick job (replacing the handrails and fitting a SoundTRAXX 'Tsunami' sound decoder has turned into this: