Intelligent consisting
This is another feature that I didn’t get when I saw it on paper.
It took some playing to fully comprehend the genius of this.
Here is why you want to mount the decoder in the ceiling of
the car and in a consistent location throughout your fleet.
Let me walk you through it. You are making up a mainline
freight and have several cars that will be in the freight that
are SoundCar equipped. You work around in the yard until
you have your consist ready, including, perhaps, a caboose.
Simulate a brake test go down the line and hold a mag-
net to the top of the SoundCar-equipped units. They will
respond with the sound of the hand brake being untied.
Then you press F8 on the loco’s throttle four times within
one minute of when you waved the magnet over the first
SoundCar. You will get a brake bleed-off sound from the
consisted cars.
MRH-Sep 2014
