The thought of drilling many holes in the weight deters me from mounting the speaker on top of the weight.  Still contemplating my options.

As for the sound, it will be a music car. This will be my third. First two are Christmas songs in HO and G Christmas box cars (speakers at each end).  This will be Wild Wild West (tv and movie versions) and western movie songs, including How the West was Won, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Green Leaves of Summer, Silverado, The Magnificent Seven - original, Farewell to Cheyenne, The Big Country, Dances with Wolves, and True Grit - original. I think that is the list,  but am open to suggestions.

Thanks.  I have looked at the sound car.  Sealing/vibration/distortion/reduced volume are my concerns with the ceiling mount, but I am reluctant to cut the weights and cut large holes or drill many holes in the floor. I will probably end up trying the ceiling because of the existing holes and if I mess up a combine, oh well.

Please let me know if you have installed a speaker or speakers in a Bachmann 1860-1880 Passenger Car. I have opened it and see openings along the sides of the top of the roof, so am contemplating mounting a 16mmx35mm speaker and enclosure to the top of the car.

Should  I remove any of the horizontal plastic struts  in the ceiling where I mount the speaker to remove some obstruction to the sound? Should I seal the enclosure to the roof and use just the openings near the speaker or should I seal it to the ceiling and use the entire roof space and all the roof openings?

Or should I mount the speaker to the floor and relocate some of the weight?

(Sound is micro sd card based with 5v dc supplied from a rectifier/transformer activated and controlled by DCC decoder; car is a combine, Silver Series, unlettered green)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Having sent in a defective ez command dcc turnout, I have been trying to check its repair status.  However, the repair status site does not recognize my password any longer and even though Irequest a reset and the site says a reset link has been emailed to me,no link appears in my email.   I have perhaps 10 Bachmann locomotives and 20 cars.  This absence of a way to communicate with a human is quite frustrating.

Thank you for the input. The track is very new, but when I started to clean and inspect it, the same issue started with the mirror turnout.  I connected the provided frog power connection for the turnout, and at least so far all is working well.  I plan to run the 45 Tonner tomorrow morning to see if a change in the moon affects it.

Thank you for the replies.  I will try cleaning, both wheels and rails. It could be the zodiac combination; the same locomotive goes through a mirror image, otherwise identical turnout fine.

I have researched substantially so this is somewhat of an age old question.  However, I have two specific questions that I have not found definitive answers for.

This little locomotive stalls repeatedly over a frog on this one turnout.  It is the only locomotive I have that stalls on my track and this locomotive stalls only at the frog on this one turnout.

I am thinking it is the short wheelbase of locomotive (just barely longer than the frog?) on an unpowered frog.

Can I and should I power the frog?  Some posts in various forums say not to on a DCC layout.

I understand powering the frog involves connecting an existing black lead in the turnout to the frog.  If I can power the frog without burning down my house, is that the correct way to power it?

Thank you for responses.

Yes, no problem.

The most often cited answer will be any standard train accessory supply (something between say 12 and 16 volts) or a wall mount transformer equivalent. 

See this chain:

http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php?action=printpage;topic=16801.0

I don't see pictures attached but also use ez track with a power cab.  I use the terminal rerailers, so am not sure of the quandry you face.  With terminal joiners I assume one powerlead out from power cab would go to inside rail and the other powerlead out from the power cab would go to the outside rail.  There are slots under ez track at the ends to run smaller gauge wires out the ends and under the track. 

Look at http://www.wiringfordcc.com/index.htm for the best overall resource I have found on DCC.

Good advice.  If I bought all I wanted to, I might also have to confess to what I have bought already but now need to complete by buying more.....  Harvey interrupted my past plans, so beginning to regroup and get some ideas at the show.

Since neither of us have been to any train shows before, my wife has agreed to go with me.  I am pretty sure for the future it will be just me, although she actually seems interested in going at least this once.

There is no local hobby store for model railroading where I live, so the WGH show in Houston will be interesting.

I am a huge fan of online, although I despise Amazon and use it regularly, but am a human.  Having used online providers for all of my purchased H0 items, including track, cars, and locomotives (my father and  mother gave me S American Flyer sets that are quite old and not yet running), I am about to try talking to another human at a train show. Wonder what the people will have to say?

Wish I could be visiting the UK, but, no, the one coming to Planet Houston this weekend.

Having never been to one of these shows before, I was curious if items are available for purchase or only being displayed/promoted?  Deer hunting shows I have experienced. The online photo gallery from WGH does not seem to show much inventory or displayed merchandise.