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11. In the last segment of the show I talk about the
Soundtraxx Sound Car decoder. The decoder has a full range
of the prototype sounds that you would expect to hear in a
string of freight cars. Flange squeal, joint bar click-clack, flat
spot thumps, uncoupling sounds with air release, couple-up
sounds with air pressure increasing in the lines, and a lot
more sounds that can be programmed to operate at various
levels of volume and frequency. Add in a new feature called
Intelligent Consisting and this decoder will link itself to your
lead locomotives without consisting through button operation,
That’s right, you wave a magnet above the car and it finds the
locomotives when you push function 8 four times. The sound
in the car lets you know when it is consisted with the locomo-
tives. Another sound tells you when you have released the
car from a consist. It’s all built-in, like magic, and I bet you
will see this feature in other decoders. There’s cool stuff on
intelligent consisting in this December video.
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12. Because it is winter, I added one runby of the garden rail-
road plowing snow, to get you into that winter spirit. Be sure
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