The Soundtraxx sounds good enough for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78JD4OsBvU

vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8RPAM5R7cY

Early steam doesn't require sophistication, it chuffs and the whistle blows.

Here is a Tsunami in an HO loco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAiY5BBzIdQ

from my "what I did":

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1905/decapod_sound/

Steam sound is more about the speakers than the decoder sounds, "bigger is better" in the form of two dissimilar speakers and use the tender body as the sound box not one of those "sissy" canister enclosures.

Harold

There is my conversion, takes more work but you can't beat the sound of two 1-1/2 diameter speakers using the tender body as a sound box:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/of_sound/



Hear the speakers in the Mogul tender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78JD4OsBvU

Bigger is better! Yeah, have tried the smaller speakers.

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Harold

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mogul_dcc/

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mogul_tsunami/

Sounds like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78JD4OsBvU

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Harold

I have "what I did" at:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/of_sound/

You could put one speaker but the set up shown sounds really good, here are the speakers in the Mogul:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78JD4OsBvU

With speakers bigger is better

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Harold

Quote from: Skarloey Railway on August 30, 2014, 10:32:41 PM
I just don't understand how people can praise the loco as a great model and then run it on toy-train-set curves.

You just don't know anything about real narrow gauge do you?

That is what narrow gauge is really about, sharp curves, lightly built right of way, etc. just like model railroads.

http://books.google.com/books?id=nJUpAAAAYAAJ&dq=narrow%20gauge&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=true

Harold

Quote from: hminky on August 28, 2014, 07:26:09 AM
The small 4-4-0 has no problem on a 15" radius.

Harold

I have one, I have a 15" radius:



Engineer Bill agrees, "Yup,  you gotta walk the walk, not talk some talk."

Best On30 locomotive made, bar none.

Harold

The small 4-4-0 has no problem on a 15" radius.

Harold

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mogul_dcc/

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Harold

Manufacturers should use the journal pickups utilized in N-scale.

Less friction and better pickup. The Athearn/MDC HO old time locomotives used pickups in the journals so it ain't that hard.

Harold

Quote from: Yardmaster on July 22, 2014, 10:33:44 PM
The new 4-4-0 will have the motor located in the boiler. The tender will house the eletronics and speaker. The loco is currently in the design phase - we used our current 4-4-0 model for illustration purposes.

Please put at least 28" diameter tender wheels on the model and not those atypical 18" V&T wheels.

28" wheels:



31" wheels:



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Harold

If you wanted a motor in the cab 1870's 4-4-0, the Richmond 4-4-0 mechanism will fit under the OldTyme 4-4-0 shell.

Just requires some grinding.

The reason I put sound in the OldTyme 4-4-0 was making a fleet of 4-4-0's with the Richmond mechanism too costly.

Now all of that is moot.

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/bachmann_4-4-0/sound/

The Bachmann PDF notes that the pictures are the previous edition.

Posted on the Civil War Yahoo group:

QuoteAs it happens, I was at the train show in Cleveland today so I asked the Bach-man about the 4-4-0.  Yes, it is being redesigned but they did not have a sample yet to show.  There will be new tooling but some existing parts will continue to be used.  Nobody there was able--or willing-- to say just what will be new and what will continue.  They did say the motor will move to the cab and there will be Sound Value sound in the tender, so my guess is they will retool only what is needed to make these changes and continue the rest, but, again, that's just my guess.  They also said it will be improved and upgraded but will still be standard line, not Spectrum.  Sound Value sound I take to be not so deluxe as Tsunami sound.  Delivery may be by the end of the year so I suppose we will just have to wait until then to find out for sure.

John Bopp

Harold

Just put things side by side and took the picture.

Never checked because the drivers are too big and the counterweights are wrong for my taste.

Someone did the conversion way back when.

Harold

Renovating the 55n3 website found this:



That is the Bachmann HO 2-8-0 mech, On30 Mogul boiler and tender.

The man and car are Scale55 as is the plan of a SP narrow gauge consolidation.

Harold

Finally got the reworked 4-4-0 video on You Tube:

http://youtu.be/k2ZzMwIaK8U



Harold

Also mocked it up as a 4-4-0:



Needs siderods made but uses the Mogul drivers.

Harold