Lionel Poultry Dispatch Car 6-83251

Here's a bad video with decent sound of the Blue 6-36738 Poultry Dispatch Car built in 2003.

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I have the 6-83251 car and it is entertaining.  However, unlike the video, mine doesn't continue clucking after passing the uncoupler track.

When activated over the uncoupling track, the door opens and the sweeper springs forward.  At the same time, the chickens cluck for about two seconds.  As long as the door is left open, there is a remote chance the chickens will cluck again as the car moves around the track, but that doesn't happen very often.

On the other hand, whenever the conventional locomotive F-N-R is activated on the transformer, the car emits a loud rooster crow.  There is a bit of a pause before the rooster crows, so if you find it annoying, just cycle through F-N-R faster than the rooster!

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The directions don't  indicate it is supposed to work that way (chickens for as long as the door is open), nor is there mention of the F-N-R rooster...

  The sounds on my tenders and hotbox car perform via random actions on occasion too. I figure errant rf triggers the tmcc portions of it. (Tmcc has more control over the things than conventional controls "special sequences" can. I have to wonder if that is how the sounds continued playing during the chicken car video too)

Dirty track sets them off at random too. 

oysters posted:

I have the 6-83251 car and it is entertaining.  However, unlike the video, mine doesn't continue clucking after passing the uncoupler track.

When activated over the uncoupling track, the door opens and the sweeper springs forward.  At the same time, the chickens cluck for about two seconds.  As long as the door is left open, there is a remote chance the chickens will cluck again as the car moves around the track, but that doesn't happen very often.

On the other hand, whenever the conventional locomotive F-N-R is activated on the transformer, the car emits a loud rooster crow.  There is a bit of a pause before the rooster crows, so if you find it annoying, just cycle through F-N-R faster than the rooster!

Got one for my daughter's birthday and just tested it.  Performs the same as above, and is entertaining.

I was hoping it would keep clucking with the door open...

Opened it up to see what makes it work.  A cherry switch, normally closed, is opened when the door mechanism is triggered, and 2 seconds of a variable clucking sequence commences, produced bu a 691-RSM1-A00 board.  I was hoping to find a potentiometer inside that may affect the timer for the duration of the clucking, but no.  Just a bunch of IC's on the board...