PRETTY NICE ACCESSORY IN ACTION, PICS & VIDEO

Pretty cool but the sounds are very annoying, lol.

Ok Alex, how are you going to get it to smoke more? 

Pretty cool, thanks for sharing the video!

Enjoy it pal! I'm glad you like it. Thanks for posting the pictures and video.

Mike R

Pretty neat Alex.

 

Thanks for sharing.

Add TMCC to it. It's even better. 

Thanks for sharing Alex.

Yeah this one I have mixed reviews about... is that a siren or is that the wheel squeek?

I thought about purchasing it but thought twice when I realize even my vision line cattle car mostly remains in the off position.

I think the break down B unit is probably more my speed... 

Dang that's LOUD........... kinda neat though. Thanks for posting.

Ditto on the ERR TMCC controller. I ran this on our modular layout at a show and told know one about it. I stopped it near a few members who were BSing. Never seen them move so fast for the transformer throttle yelling Fire on Track Three!!! Smoke and sound have On/Off switches as well as volume control.

Well done Hot Box Video.

  Thanks for sharing........

Neat concept, but I cannot imagine running that for very long, or having more than one. 

Alex I always enjoy your postings but I have to admit that sounds really annoying

Interesting to see the video. I had to turn the sound off! LOL!!

That sound would either attract animals, or make them run for cover. Depending on which, it might be a useful accessory.

 

That sound would either make my wife complain, or make her run for cover. Depending on which, it might be a useful accessory.

Thats a great accessory that is begging for an Electric Railroad Mini Commander Hot Box Reefer Kit to be turned on and off by a Legacy Cab 2! 

 

-Pete

Man Alex I like to see that car once and only once.  I was working Sean's booth at the big e and some guy was running this around and around in the next aisle over.  After awhile it was like scratching the blackboard.  It drove me nuts.  I went to his booth with a hammer and told him I have to fix the hot box reefer

Pretty neat, I got the same effect when I accidently parked a passenger car across to closed blocks of different voltage. All the passenger car did though was smolder as the wiring fried. At least you get the benefit of sounds and simulated flames. Yep pretty cool; if your gonna burn something up at least have some flames to enjoy the effects, an explosion and debris flying through the air is fun too.

Alex, you are right, that the audio effect can be quite annoying but keep in mind the sounds you hear are not a siren but are supposed to simulate the sounds of a seized up spindle/wheel bearing.  This does not make it less annoying, however.  I like this accessory but in small doses.

 

-Pete

Good morning all,

 

Thanks for the nice comments and input. With that being said, I'm LMAO reading all your posts

because I feel the same way. When I was shooting this video my wife was yelling from upstairs

WHAT THE HECK IS THAT SOUND. The sound is just ear piercing, she kept yelling SHUT THAT THING OFF. I'm wondering why Mike R gave it to me LOL (JUST KIDDING). It really is a nice accessory minus the squeaking sound.

 

Ben, I can just picture you walking over to the guys booth with a hammer. Hey guy you wanna shut that thing off before I smash it. Your post had me rolling on the floor. If you Vinny and me were there, we would have flipped the guys table over. LOL.

 

A big shout out to Mike R for giving me this accessory (THANKS MIKE) LOL LOL

 

With this all being said, anybody interested in purchasing it

 

 

Thanks,

Alex

 

 

Sounds like you have a good door prize for the next club meeting. 

Alex it is very nice. I have one and was thinking about installing the ERR Board so I can control it remotely and then also adding a fan driven smoke unit so we can really get the smoke flowing!

 

But I guess adding a few more speakers might be crossing the line!

Dennis,

 

I was thinking of two Fat boy speakers with a bass booster amp LOL LOL

 

All jokes aside, it is a nice accessory

Dina would Love That!

After listening to the sound effects, I am glad I collect passenger cars. 

Wife heard the screeching while I was playing the video, asked whats going on, what are I was watching. I showed her, and told her that's neat, and the special effect that goes with it. She told me if I got one, not to play it, if I did, to say good bye to my train room and think about putting it back into the spare bedroom it was.

Yes, Thank you for saving me on this one.

Before watching this, smoking diesels was my biggest annoying factor. 

 

Art

I have a couple of these converted to TMCC, makes them much more useful on command layouts.  It's not something you want going off all the time, but on demand it's pretty cool. 

 

I figure I'll put the guts of one in a PFE Reefer behind the new Big Boy and use it at shows.  It's nice to introduce a new action at random for the folks watching. Harry Henning III put his in a scale Reefer, looks just like all the other scale cars until the sounds start.

 

I know I was joking around above, but John you're right. This does happen to be a very nice

accessory, like you and the guys said above. If it had TMCC it would be great, the more I try it the more I like it.

 

Alex

I like stuff like this for entertaining folks that come to see the modular layout.  It breaks the mold of all the "serious" stuff.  Kids love stuff like this, and that's one of my main target audiences when we do a show.  Just trying to bring the next generation of O-gauger's along.

 

 

Thanks, never fired mine up yet but still want to add the ERR Module so I can activate it via the CAB2.

One of the members of our old modular group purchased these [all road names available] when they went on blowout years ago and ran them on the modular lay-out. Running one it would get about 2/3rds around before you would have to stop it, according to it's recording. It "DID" get annoying after awhile! At one time he ran all 4(?) at once; what a smoke storm!

I do like the accessory and when I have the money and I can find one in the Santafe livery, I would like one to run with my [K-Line] Map Reefer Unit Train [it will have to have TMCC added though].  

I'm glad everyone got a kick out of this accessory.

I got it new when I owned my hobby shop. I also took home the Santa Fe model. The one I gave Alex was only on the track once on a loop of 0-63 track I had under my Christmas tree one year. I ran it once with the sound on and that was it. Lol!! I like how the smoke intensifies the longer the wheel bearing squeak. The sound can get annoying but it does have an on/off switch.

I really liked reading all the comments. They were all very amusing to say the least.

Ben...I think if I had to listen to it all day the guy would've went "TO THE MOON!!"

Thanks
Mike R

this would be a good car for Lionel to reintroduce with legacy.