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ron045:
Just curious if anyone has ever made a sound car for the middle or end of their train to play all the wonderful sounds made by rolling stock.

It seems like it would be fairly simple by adding a HO module to a piece of rolling stock with a speaker and power with a battery or track power.

Ron

KPack:
I've wanted to do it, but it would require new code to be written.  Basically Ring would need to create code that turned a LM into an accessory or 'slave' module that could be linked to the LM's in the locomotives.  That way the speed of the train would influence the sounds being played from the sound cars.  New sounds would need to be recorded and code written that allowed the sounds to change in pitch and frequency, similar to how the steam chuff works.

Soundtraxx did their sound car decoder years ago and I don't think it ever really took off.  I've barely seen any actually used.  I love the concept, but I just don't know how well it would be recieved.

-Kevin

ron045:
What if you linked the two LM's as a Consist MU?

Alan:
No varying motor load on the second LM will be a problem.

KPack:
Correct, it will mess with the actual locomotives.  That's why I was thinking it needed to be slaved somehow, where it would be connected to the LM's but only read the speed and not be part of the actual consist.

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