Hello. I have a question on Lionel Railsounds. I have no idea which version it is but I assume it is one of the orginal versions. The loco is about 10 years old. It actually is a Kline steam engine with lionel railsounds. I have what I feel is a unique situation. 10 years ago I had a Lionel Sante fe deisel (F3 i believe) and had trouble with the railsounds dropping out upon direction change and throttle down. Tried new battery and worked for a few minutes and as soon as the batter dranined slightly the railsounds would start dropping out again. I go a replacement engine (3 in fact) and even one new soundboard, and they all did the same thing so I finally returned it and bought a MTH/Railking Sante Fe F3. Works great! Fast forward to present- I had bought a Kline engine with railsounds at the same time, about 10 years ago, and at that time the same thing happened with that engine. It dropped the RS upon throttle down and direction change. I was in the prosses of moving, so in a box it went and never thought about it again. Now after a long time away from the hobby I finally got a layout going and pullled out the kline steamer. Works flawlessly but the RS stlll drops out regardless of battery strength etc. Is this something that was common back when RS first came out? Is there any fix? I had posted on this forum back then abouty my original Sante Fe F3 deisel and was told maybe it was my layout? Now this is a different layout, all new and I stlll have the problem. I and running conventional block wiring (no TMCC/DCS etc) Any suggestions? Seems weird that I had two different engines, two different layouts and the same probems..
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