Big goof in the pfa of mth new gs4

Is there a fix?

99% of the people who buy this locomotive will not know this.

Make that 98% now.

Speak and email with MTH. They have been known to make available correction files in the past available to download.

Likely true and this is not the first time MTH's sound file has an inconsistent or in accurate detail: having Chicago run stop on a PRR electric or modern helicopter background sounds on a premier F3.

 

The good news is that MTH has the ability to quickly offer a corrected sound file that can be put in the PS2/3 engine in question.  So it might be worth while to let MTH's Andy E. know that the daylight's station stops is greatly inaccurate.

 

I would like to see MTH offer custom sound playlist files (for a reasonable fee $5 to $15) that you can select from a catalog on their site, pay for and then receive the file via email or link. We could select the order of stops and idle sounds we want for a specific loco.

That sounds (no pun intended) like a good idea to me. Would be a neat feature to be able to do that. Also I think being able to add more sounds to what you have already, crew talk, freight/station sounds, etc. would make a lot of people happy as well.

 Now it's 97%. 

My  MTH Blue Goose extended startup blatantly mentions stoke the coal when actual unit is oil fired.

Well, I don't care for talking locomotives, but when I get a new Lionel-spec one I hit AUX1 + 7 just to hear it once. Typically I never listen to it again.

 

But, forgive MTH for the goof above; my Lionel NdeM Centipede speaks English, for some reason. Hilarious. At least my MTH Chapelon 2-3-1 does, indeed, speak French. 

 

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The Blue Goose coal/oil thing is amusing, also.

 

But my favorite Verbal Locomotive silliness is that found in Lionel Legacy steamers, whem

the crew is told to "start it up", and then does! (I'm waiting for "give it more gas".)

 

One does not "start up" a steam locomotive. I've never seen one yet with an ignition key

and a battery. One fills it with water, builds a coal fire or at least lights off the oil burners, gets up a head of steam...none of this happens in a nonce. But Lionel (bless 'em) wants us to "crank 'em up!"

They didn't include Anaheim, Azuza and Cucamonga did they?

(Readers under 50 will need to consult an older person.)

Curt

Make it 96% for a day or two then put it back up to 97%, I will have forgotten this by then.

95%, I have the engine and I do not care, I am keeping it. Makes it unique. .

Just thinking, I wonder who is in charge of checking the sound files. They most likely do not have one familiar with Southern Cal.

I guess it didn't stop in Lompoc either.  

I don't think this is a huge deal, it's simply a lack of research from MTH. I think MTH is a great company and makes fantastic trains, but the sound guy just isn't familiar the area. For example, my P&LE GP7, announces the town of Monaca, Pennsylvania as "Monica", when it should be pronounced "Moan-ak-uh".

 

Michael

Train now leaving on...

 

track 5

I'm actually getting that put on a sound chip and putting it in my station.

 

Jerry

Oui, but do you know what it is saying?

Under California law, MTH is in deep trouble.  MTH should have had a label on the package:

 

 WARNING. This package contains a model locomotive that is known to the State of California to have an improper sequence of stations stops, which can result in injury to Californians.

It's got a yellow bonnet on the point. I thought the yellow bonnets were a product of the 70's, but here it is in the 50's. When was the yellow bonnet made?

Now that made me chuckle RJR.

 

RAILFAN & RAILROAD comic strip artist Tony Katz made that error (with Frisco 4-8-2 1522, I think) and it became a running gag.

 

For another variation of "Anaheim, Azuza and Cucamonga," click here

Does it arrive in SF or LA at the end of the run?   Joe

Doesn't that depend on if it is the Coast Daylight or not?

 

Jerry