Picked up a nice Rio Grande PA AA set with one powered and one dummy from Williams by Bachmann. Upon inspection it worked nice, and had a realistic sound set to my surprise. Opened it up and found something called a MASSUSE and another little board hooked up to it with a speaker - all of which don't seem to be factory original. I know nothing about Williams by Bachmann boards.
It sounds good. Very basic. Price mover, Bell, and Whistle - like the early days of sound equipped trains, but nice. Oddly though the Bell button controls the whistle, and the Whistle controls the bell - at least that's what my TPC is doing. I saw that a black lead was connected to a red lead and vice-versa so I'm thinking this is why. Usually you get a swapped response if you track is wired backwards. Not a big deal though. (See picture - There are also two molex Connectors just detached doing nothing. Any ideas?)
*It also has a multi-chime horn like Lionel Railsounds II-4.0 had. Very nice. But doesn't have station sounds, crew talk, or brakes or any of that, so I know it isn't Proto-1 sounds or anything like that. Sounds are great just no idea what brand.
I'm hoping to add smokers to these guys so I may have to move the boards around.
I guess what I'm wondering is, what is a MASSUSE board and what sound board do you think is in here? Is it original or custom?
The directions that came with it mention nothing about prime mover or such realistic sounds.
