Whistles

[budsie175]

Bachmann steam locomotive has smoke but no whistle, at least that I can find. Are there seperate whistles that can be had and any recomendations?

 

[GN.2-6-8-0]

Only the sound equipted locomotives will have Whistles/horns.

 

[Railphotog]

They don't actually have whistles or horns, but an electronic decoder with all of the sounds preprogrammed in. They are attached to speakers within the model or tender.

 

[budsie175]

OK, then are there any seperate devices that will produce the sound that is available. I see there is an HO station that can be had but the scale doesn't exactly fit the large gage.

 

[Trucula]

There are several devices for sound. There's several power pack looking units that produce sound to mounted speakers to the layout or to a live stock car that had a built in speaker and was powered and fed thru the rails. This was pulled by one train. Has station "All Aboard!" and circus sounds.
There is another unit that has 2 speakers with a push pad. But the sounds don't match well..
I have all above and they are in a box because they don't compare to onboard sound.
Its hard to imagine when a whistle is one side of the layout when your train is on the other.

 

[UP2CSX]

Bud, is your train G scale Bachmann? Is it inside? One of your options is the MRC Symphony 77. There's a description of it at http://www.modelrectifier.com/search/product-view.asp?ID=7614. It can be had on-line ofr as lit as $50. The two speakers help to spread the sound some so it isn't all coming from one place. Not as nice as having a decoder with sound in the engine but I've heard one in action and it sounded pretty good, especially for large scale trains.