What options are out there for adding a steam chug sound?
Ideally it needs to be something mechanically triggered, like the old Lionel "Mighty Sound of Steam" systems.
I'd like to be able to fit two into a Lionel "starter set" style tender. One for each set of drivers in my kitbashed Mallet locomotive.
Then, when the lead drivers have that little wheelslip on startup, you'd get a cool "chugchug... chug... chug... chug..." effect
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Maybe you could get a playing card, a clothespin, and mount a spoke on one of the tender's wheels?
Serious, what I have done is bought used Railsounds tenders at swap meets, etc. Sometimes I just switch them out for the RTR loco's tender, other times do a transplant from one to the other to add sound to the original tender: whatever works easiest.
I gotta find out where and when the trains shows are being held... For some reason they're not well-advertised in this area.
if you don't like the card trick,
we used to use balloons
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Well, the stock Lionel Sound of steam boards are too large to fit 2 in a 6026 style tender, along with a speaker. I don't know how well 2 boards feeding the same speaker will work out. About the only possibility I can see for what you want is a Electric RR Co. Articulated steam sound board and run it in conventional mode.
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