Finished Lionel Hogwarts Upgrade

Nice work, enjoy!!

Great work.  How did you accomplish the addition of movie sounds?

Here is a link to my older thread on how I did my first sound car. Mostly, I used the movies and my computer to edit the sounds, and then a great asset to the ITTProducts loaded them to a sound card and some help from the forum on a simple circuit needed. 

 

https://ogrforum.com/t...-link-to-video-added

 

Very cool, nice work! I like the additions, and the sounds are great.

 

It does need a fan driven smoke unit and the Super-Chuffer, but you can always add those.

 

Very nice. 

Thanks for the kind comments all.

 

GRJ - no fan driven smoke or super chuffer board for the HOGWARTS. This is my fiancé's favorite engine and she can't breath with the smoke on, so it will keep the lowly puffer. If not for her, I would be a customer for sure ��

Bummer, but I do love what you've done there.  I'm thinking about what I want to add, I do want to get my lanterns lit on the pilot, and the backup light.  Then I'll tackle the cars, LED lighting and of course the sound, that really adds a huge dimension to the set!

Very nice. Sounds are great.

 

 

Nick

 

 

I would like to know where you got your sound board? I would like to do something similar with my Scale PE diner by adding the "hot Chocolate" song to it.

 

Also can the mini commander work conventionally with either the Whistle or bell button on the transformer.

If you have the sound clip, I got th sound board from http://ittproducts.com

George can put the clip onto one of his modules.

The ERR command products also run in conventional mode.  If you have a RailSounds Commander, they'll react to the whistle and bell buttons in command mode as well.

 

A good choice for this upgrade is the ERR Cruise Commander Lite, still listed at $50 MSRP on their site.  It's cheaper than the MC2, and gives you cruise control as well, pretty hard to pass up.  You can fit the CC-Lite, RS Commander, and the speaker into the tender without too much trouble.

It's interesting to see that the pilot lanterns aren't lit on the Hogwarts version of this engine. On my Santa's Flyer version, the headlight is a yellow LED, and the pilot lanterns are lit with white LEDS. It gives a very nice lighting effect.

 

I also added a flashing red rear warning light to the rear passenger car, and drilled out two holes and glued in some F-3 porthole lens to make rear windows, which I like better than a blank rear on the end car.

Yep, lighting the lanterns seems like a natural choice, I'm surprised it wasn't done.

 

Yeah, I was shocked when I found out they were lit on the Christmas engine, but not on the Hogwarts.  They look really cool lit up.

 

breezinup - nice work on the rear passenger car. 

What's the number of the Christmas engine?  I wonder if you could by the lanterns as parts?

 

 

that was my first thought when I found the Christmas engine has the lanterns lit, but when I searched the parts list, they were not listed (this was about 1 month ago).

BUMMER!

 

Looks like I'll have to do them myself.