Railsounds I upgrade recommendations

Chris; I think your best bet is for you to call Electric Railroad tomorrow and discuss directly with them your wants. "ERR" is basically the electronics 'arm' of Lionel and do the development for all the Railsounds components and can also give you any upgrade advice on cruise control and motor driver technology.

You need the New Railsounds Commander from ERR. They have a suggested retail of 89.95  each from ERR and are a pretty easy DIY install (the ERR manuals are online). GGG here on the forum has been selling these at a discount. I get the suggested retail of $89.95 each installed.

jackson

IMHO am not sure you really want to upgrade that PRR b6 becasue it uses the postwar pulmor motor. You are better off with a K-line b6 with a can motor to upgrade.

You can check with boxcar bill also he is a distributor too. He has some rail sounds as low as $38.50 but which is the one you need he will be able to tell you.

Go to ERR's website - The New Railsounds Commander is  a stand alone sound system that can be used with or without TMCC; it can be used with conventional - both DC can motors and AC universal (Pullmore) motors. Yes, Boxcar Bill is a very reputable distributor as well. Even though i am a distributor as well, i have purchased from Bill when i was in a jam and needed something for a customer in a rush.

jackson

This is a pre-war 0-6-0 I finished about a month ago.

I don't see any smoke Bill!

Natural Gas. 

Just did a Collector's Gallery review of the 1990-1991 Lionel B6 switcher in the April/May issue of OGR and I thought the early RailSounds installed in it reproduced excellent digital sound. If you can live without the later CrewTalk and TowerCom announcements, I would be inclined to run it, "as is". 

I was happily surprised at the sound quality of the one I tested, especially since it was literally one of the first units Lionel installed in a steam locomotive.

The Digital Edition of OGR also features the RailSounds unit of the B6 in action.  If you get the Digital Edition I think you will like what you hear.

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