Good Morning everyone.
I am in search of a Railsounds 5.5 card for the above Legacy engine. This is no longer available from Lionel. P/N 691-RS55-015
I would be interested in the chip set if someone had that. I can put those in an empty card.
I am also in search of the rear Long Hood Lighting board. P/N 620-8567-116 This has the 4 lights verses 2 lights. This is also unavailable.
Thanks
Chris
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You can make the lighting harness, all the connectors are readily available. I've had to make a few for Legacy.
I have no idea where you'd find the RS board unless you get incredibly lucky.
gunrunnerjohn posted:You can make the lighting harness, all the connectors are readily available. I've had to make a few for Legacy.
I have no idea where you'd find the RS board unless you get incredibly lucky.
Thanks John.
John,
Can I put a Railsounds 6 board in the place of a 5.5? I can still get a GP-7 5 chime from Lionel, while I wait to see if I can find the #105 board.
P/N 691RS60109
The connector wiring is different, those are a special breed. I know of at least two that were killed plugging them into the wrong motherboard. You'd have to consider transplanting more than the sound board I expect.
Thank you for the advice John. Well Received!
Oddly enough, I recall talking to Mike Reagan about this engine and the 4-light system (w/strobe and red stop), probably at least 3 years ago. I don't remember how it came up, although I might have mentioned something about it because I had that engine, and thought it was a neat effect. He said yeah, but if that light system goes out, that's the end of it for these engines, because the electronic boards were no longer made. I don't recall exactly what he was talking about, but I know he meant that wasn't any fix if the lights went bad.
I noted that the next round of Legacy UP Geeps Lionel put out no longer had the 4-light system.
Board level repair was not possible?
I'd suggest asking the mods to move this as it's become a discussion thread.
Does anyone know if Lionel service has the ability to reprogram chip sets, or did they flush that equipment when the Railsounds Lite boards became avaviable?
Hard to believe they totally lost the ability, but I haven't seen any evidence they're dusting off the old programming equipment to make these parts available. I still have programmers from the 1980's, though I'm seriously considering deep-six for them, I don't think I'll be programming any 2K EPROM parts nowadays. 
I was just curious. I thought of buying a 5.5 board and seeing if Lionel would reprogram it for the #105 if they still had their equipment and files.
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