Railsounds on gold plated j1e hudson

I have one that I run for a few minutes every year. I believe it is a cherry switch just like everything else from that era.

Scott Smith

Didn't you answer your own question?  It's the Hall Effect sensor on the tender wheel.  You might be able to use it on a modern sound board, something I haven't tried.

scott is that the complete set or just part of it

You can use a hall effect switch with ERR to trigger the sound.

Bill

Bob,

The Lionel set only included the Hudson engine and matching woodside caboose.

The passenger car is one of 7 from the MTH Millenium Premier set they made a little bit earlier that same year.

The chuff on the 6-28062 Lionel Gold Hudson is generated by a cherry switch in the locomotive that gets activated with the smoke cam. This signal is transmitted to the tender on the serial line via the infrared tether.

It IS possible to use a hall-effector sensor with a RailSounds 4 sound system, but you'll need to be certain that you find the right mother board that has the connections to the right pins on the sound boards. I don't think the motherboard found in the gold Hudson tender is set up for it.

TRW

The 18006 from the same era used a hall effect sensor on the tender, I guess they couldn't make up their mind back then.

Thomas is correct. Lionel only made an engine and caboose. I purchased the rest on Ebay and they are MTH.

Scott Smith

thanks Scott and Thomas I was wondering as I have the entire Gold MTH set myelf

Thanks to Charlie Nassau