Swinging bell

Bobby Cox posted:

Does the Lionel Vision Line Big Boy have a swinging bell? How about the Lionel Vision Line SF 3000 2-10-10-2, swinging bell? Can't find answers in product description. TIA

No on the BB yes on the 2-10-10-2 

The prototype Big Boys didn't have swinging bells either.  They had air powered clappers. 

Note air line to top of bell yolk:

Rusty

Man you guys are awesome! How do you know all this stuff? Thanks for the info.

Bobby Cox posted:

Man you guys are awesome! How do you know all this stuff? Thanks for the info.

You're welcome. My uncle has a vision BB so that's how I know that one and I've seen videos of the SF 2-10-10-2 to figure that one out. 

The locomotives with the swinging bell work very good.   Being a parts hound, I ordered several swinging bells to have handy.

I have the VL CC2S 0-8-8-0 with the swinging bell, pretty neat feature.

"Man you guys are awesome! How do you know all this stuff? Thanks for the info."

Obviously, you have a life.

Many of us - and by many, I mean me - do not. So we know about bell clappers. Sigh.

Marty, could one be put on a scale K-line steamer? Don

Anything's possible, but the issue is as much how you'd control it as how you'd mechanically install it.  The swinging bell is activated by a small coil inside the shell and a magnet in the bell. 

However, there is also a bell driver board that I suspect takes the serial data for the bell strike and moves the bell.  Without knowing how that works, you'd have to "roll your own" bell control.  Getting it synchronized with the bell sound would be a trick I suspect.

Thanks, believe I will leave well enough alone.

The swinging bell is in the same animation category as the engineer with the waiving hand.

AlanRail posted:

The swinging bell is in the same animation category as the engineer with the waiving hand.

What category would that be?

Bobby Cox posted:

Man you guys are awesome! How do you know all this stuff? Thanks for the info.

Some of us are actually old enough to have ridden on steam hauled trains in the 1940's and 1950's.

Tinplate Tom posted:

Bobby Cox posted:

Man you guys are awesome! How do you know all this stuff? Thanks for the info.

Some of us are actually old enough to have ridden on steam hauled trains in the 1940's and 1950's.

Plus, there's these things called books.

Rusty

More than one way to make a swinging bell. BTW this is On3.

Pete

I tell my friends who have swinging bells and removable hatches for smoke to buy those parts extra.  Right now things are ok for parts.  Down the road when these engines have time under them, who knows what the parts situation may be.

Marty