08-29-2010, 04:24 PM
P5se Camelback Wrote:I think I did mention that sound was one of the reasons I was considering DCC. If I didn't, I should have because the SoundTrax Light Steam with the Reading Company 6-chime steam whistle gets my nostalgia juices flowing!
... I want to hear that on my layout!
Sorry, I missed your post about using sound.
The biggest challenge that you are going to have on converting these brass locomotives is the size of them. The fact that you want to use a sound decoder makes things much more challenging. Camelback locomotives have very little room to work with. Most sound decoder installs into steam locomotives, puts the decoder , speaker and other electronics into the tender. Now with re-motoring you might be able to install a Micro- Tsunami decoder and a small speaker into a Camelback. This will be a tight fit, so it will depend on just how much room there is to work with inside one of them .