MTH LIRR RS-1 - Going From Babylon to...

At least you got NY PFA announcements...my LIRR L1 Mikado said from Winchester Va to Hagerstown MD!

Hmm, that is an interesting and amusing problem. All the announcements on my LIRR RS-1 have all the correct stops for Oyster Bay (at least in conventional mode). I wonder if that is unique to yours or under certain circumstances the incorrect stops come out on all of those units. It would be interesting to hear what others with this engine have to say.

I just looked at the part number of my engine and it is 30-20214-1.

Jonny,

I also have the 30-20214-1 version of the LIRR RS-1, and it too has the correct sequence for the Oyster Bay branch.  I guess MTH tried to make a different run, but got confused over the LIRR system.

Stuart

I'm hoping that Mike will do his RS1 in NdeM paint like Atlas did with theirs in HO scale.  In that case I want real Espanol cab chatter.....not just some Tex-Mex Gringo stuff but the real Esdepapa !

Wait till you hear the sound file in my C-Liner. It features me sing show tunes!

Now that would be interesting to hear.

Well the1962 new MTH RS-1 has finally arrived from Ro.

Decorated as delivered with fresh paint. I had to re-paint the bottom area black as it was not done correctly by MTH.

First off, the horn is wrong. LIRR passenger diesels were equipped with chimes.

Only found 2 quality issues with this unit, better than most. As you can see the dinged corner paint and an assembly line worker who forgot to cut the excess grab iron wire.

The bottom PFA sticker indicates freight sounds but the sounds contain a passenger train.

PFA should have been (COMMUTER) sounds.

Background sounds are very funny with RR workers having southern accents working in NY.

The phony voices/station background sounds are very cartoon like with an upbeat happy RR crew. Some voices are too loud, and I can’t hardly hear like the station stop conductor.

PS operation, Jamaica, SND 4 Babylon, “this stop East Port” SND 5 is inaudible, SND 6 East Hampton.

The voice at this stop Jamaica also say “be careful of the steps”.

Those are platforms, not steps to get on the coach there. “May I take you’re baggage?” There are several mentions of baggage. Busy commuters traveling LI commuter lines generally don’t carry baggage.

“Now departing on track 1 for Oster Bay, train # 500” That sounds odd.

Also, “Have a nice day” was not the term used back then.

The sound file memory is wasted by repetitious mentions of “sand “even in the SSD shut down mode.

Pretty funny!

You would think for the increased price, MTH would get things a litter closer to the specific marketed product. At least they remembered to add the front road number on this unit!

I agree SIRT, the sound file was riddled with inaccuracies 

Well, they did do that for the Railking LIRR L1s 2-8-2.

Stuart

Charlie -  

I sent Roy a specific 1964 W.F. script to follow for the last RS-1 including real MP3 background sounds similar to what you would have heard back then. It was a Greenport train #463 on track 5 with Jamaica station PA announcements.

I also included a freight script working around the LI City industries.

This was a few years ago now. They never took advantage of it.

Let me know when the Blue & White MP-15 is planned and I will try again contacting Roy at MTH. I have some cool scripts. I have the cab crew talking about taking Ben to a Mets game, funny!

Of well, I love the RS1 diesel anyway, too bad it couldn’t also contain some convincing sounds.

Email me off line so I have enough time in advance to update the scripts and sound files for an MP-15.

Maybe we can get you, Ben and some local guys to do the voices as we did on the SIRT S2 unit?

The entire process is time consuming, so if we jump on it ASAP, we might have a better chance of getting it into the product next time around.

S.