MTH Reading & Northern Pacific no whistle smoke?

Are you sure you enabled FSW- steaming whistle on the remote?

SPW- is the sound- quilling whistle but does NOT automatically enable the steaming whistle.

That said, initially I had to toggle mine (OFF/ON) once or twice to ensure FSW was actually enabled at the engine.

Also, caution, I just checked your sound file, and as I suspected, you too are a victim of the bad sound file problem of the Heavy Pacifics all released with steaming whistle have a flaw where if you enable quilling whistle SPW and then play the PFA sequence, just before the engine takes off and plays the 2 toots for forward there will be an ear shattering beep or noise from the speaker. If you just have the whistle in normal non-quilling mode and start the sequence, it hopefully does not invoke the ear shattering beep.

Again, downloaded your sound file https://mthtrains.com/20-3811-1 and checked that it does have a bad segment 241.

I've tried contacting MTH, I've tried getting dealers involved. I personally have 2 engines and $2600 tied up in this mess.

https://ogrforum.com/...6#163180074756537156

Even @Allan Miller has one of these engines and even though he hasn't said it, the sound file certainly checks out to have the bug

https://ogrforum.com/...5#164024807343089535

MTH has had since I reported this on 7/28/2022 to acknowledge it, and then actually commit to doing something about it. Meanwhile dealers keep selling these and shipping them and honestly, if push comes to shove and people get angry and return bad programmed engines at dealer expense, this is going to be one heck of a mess.

So yeah, if you cannot get steaming whistle to work, and you now know about this sound problem- you have plenty of justification to send that thing back.

Thanks VERNON for the info on the whistle steam.  I will try it again tomorrow.  I thought it worked like the Legacy steam engines by just tooting the whistle.  I ll let you know how it goes.

@laz1957 posted:

Thanks VERNON for the info on the whistle steam.  I will try it again tomorrow.  I thought it worked like the Legacy steam engines by just tooting the whistle.  I ll let you know how it goes.

Nope, sorry to say, you've been spoiled by Lionel's implementation. I too have a fleet of Legacy and Visionline.

I will say this, in the app using the WIU+TIU, whistle steam and quilling whistle are far more intuitive and a better experience compared to using the remote.

And just a clarification, again, you can just enable FSW steaming whistle, not enable quilling whistle SPW off, and the whistle steam blows with the normal whistle button. But the thing is, you have to first enable it via DCS command- as by default it's off. There's no physical switch like a Lionel and as you know, a Lionel if the switch is on, unless you turned off all smoke TMCC/Legacy, it's on by default.

It might come down to patent wars, naming wars, whatever. That's why MTH has to call it "Steaming Whistle" and Lionel calls it whistle steam.

Thanks VERNON a everything works as it should with the whistle steam.  MTH only gives you a generic instructions sheet and it had nothing about the soft keys in it.  I did check the pea and tried the whistle and it was very low sounding.  I usually don’t use the pea so all is good.  Thank you again on enlightening me on this new feature.