Bachmann NYC Hudson

This is probably the best video I recorded to date!
Sorry about how dirty she is btw, I didn't realize how much of a dusting she needed.
This is a Custom Whistle I made for ESU Loksound V5, and I absolutely love how it sounds! I know it's probably more accurate to a streamlined Dreyfuss Hudson, but hey, its close enough. Let me know what you think of it!

[@danielboone3770]

Express coming through! Love the whole thing!

[@scottb8175]

It's interesting that even with modern superior detailed and running plastic, which is as good and sometimes better detailed than the brass of the 60-90's, I can still tell a molded in color or painted plastic finish from painted brass or die-cast in a glance. There are good and bad in both, and I'm not a snob, I love my old Rivarossi models as much as my PFM's and cast metal kits, but to my eye they appear very different.

[@elijahglasser1421]

Express coaches coming through

[@NoahboyMinistriescom.]

I love that whistle!

[@sd80mac]

Would you consider sharing/selling the file for that whistle? It sounds like a very close match for PM 1225!

[@nathanburke1224]

@@sd80mac all the whistles I made and use should be available on my GitHub repository. I might instead make it a Google drive for ease of access tho

[@CentralJerseyRailfan]

How was installing the Lok 5 into the factory board with TCS Keepalive and 21MTC? Genuinely curious to know which speakers you used as well.

[@nathanburke1224]

the TCS Keep alive works great with Loksound as long as you don't program with it. Keep alive is literally just hardwired to the power, as all tcs keepalives are, so when you are programming, the signals get muddled, preventing programming to occur. think of passenger car lights without capacitors, when you add capacitors to the circuit, it makes the lights drain slower. the decoder programs in fast pulses, so adding capacitance to these pulses basically extends the signals to the point where its constant, so basically no cv's get changed.
The speakers are Stock, i just added some black electrical tap to the sides of the tender shell to dampen the vibration.

[@CentralJerseyRailfan]

@@nathanburke1224 Thanks so much for the insight! Thank god Bachmann used a 21 pin plug so modelers can easily do decoder swaps themselves lol. I wonder how easy selling the OEM TCS was

[@nathanburke1224]

@@CentralJerseyRailfan I personally just use it in an older locomotive just to record sounds off of if i need them. though, i wonder if you could sell second hand decoders at all

[@PatrickCarneyqqsu]

O_O

[@nathanburke1224]

OvO