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Sid .my name is Pamela. I live here in Michigan and follow you,norm,and Rpg . Here's my problem . I sent my 4449 GS4 to henning trains for repair I even told them to upgrade it if they couldn't find the parts. That was 9months ago. Now I just want it back and would like to know if I did get it back if you would take on the challenge inputting electric rr system in it? A lover of trains and your site Pamela

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Great video 👍 and great 👍 idea for videos!!! Thank you for sharing!! It's really exciting to see these old engines restomodded and performing great! How much time did it take you to perform the work and how much did the parts cost? Thanks again for sharing! Looking forward to your next videos. P.S. Subscribed 😀👍

Great video 👍 and great 👍 idea for videos!!! Thank you for sharing!! How much time did it take you to perform the work and how much did the parts cost? Thanks again for sharing! Looking forward to your next videos. P.S. Subscribed 😀👍

Has anyone figured out how to make an electro coupler work with this yet?

That doesn't look like the big boy😂

Sid, please make more videos showing Blunami installations. Also detail how to make the bridge rectifier, and other circuits that are needed for O Scale installations. Thanks!

Yes, more videos please.

Hi Sid, I have a new Atlas premier SD70 essential workers 4404 got it in april, it's pulling very high amps just at idle: 6-8 amps the mid section of shell gets very very warm, I'll be taking it for repair today but would you have an idea what is causing this? Thanks

Very nice presentation Sid. I thought I would share a video of my Lionel 1-700e & 1938 700e running on my clubs layout. The 1938 700e is pulling some Lionel prewar semi-scale rolling stock and I have a part in the video where I double head both engines. Take care Sid. ruclips.net/video/vOhPCEu_REI/видео.htmlsi=hf80QJSCGnAKiSDC

So you did this locomotive both in Protosound and TMCC…which did you end up with and prefer? I have the same one and it’s in need of an overhaul.

Welcome back it's been awhile

Where Can I Find One Of Them

Me: Watches this video. My 2 Postwar berks sitting on my table: *Sweating profusely* "Don't."

that the 2018 lionchief polar express set

my lionel scout set was my first lionchief set I'm dont remember or what year my papa get it for me right after he died

My son has a 1950s 4-6-4 steam locomotive that needs fixing so I was wondering if you could fix it for him 😊. Thanks

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting it. It looks like you could run a Blunami-equipped locomotive on the same layout and at the same time as almost anything else - like MTH DCS, Lionel Legacy, straight old-time AC - without interference. Is that correct?

Hi Sid! I think you've created a great video here. I too, had heard of Blunami DCC, but was still on the fence with the same concerns voiced below by bernardbob. A friend of mine, who knows you, recommended I watch the above video of yours and I feel Blunami DCC, will be a real contender in 3 rail market. However, the smoke unit issue has to be addressed. Would love to hear from you, as this is something the market needs.

Say, did all the UP berks have whistle tenders? If so, how do you work it? I have that loco, n I push the whistle button on my transformer, n nothing!?

Hi! Just wondered what the purpose of the capacitor used with the bridge rectifier? I've seen a couple ac/dc conversions done on Pullmors using only the rectifier and they seem to run fine.

4449 daylight locomotive steam engine

It’s a thing of beaury

Any way you can show how to wire up a smoke unit?

Love the blue comet

I'm going to guess that you are a Scorpio.

Love that locomotive!

If that universal remote would just operate a powermaster, thus convential locos, it would be complete.

Did you have the same problem of the sound randomly cutting out and how do I fix

I am thinking about putting a Blunami 4008 sound system on a ROW KK 2 engine. Is this possible and how difficult is it install this system. I have found the engine and tender are extremely hard too open up to get to the electronics. I need to talk to you about this process before I start on it or have someone help me who has a lot o experience with these engines

Thanks for the video. I admired this set back when it first came out and as an elementary school kid, it was unimaginably expensive. As far as the sound, I remember at the time reading an article(maybe in the LCCA magazine? Maybe in the catalog where this was sold?) about the sounds on it. I wish I could locate it again, as I remember it having a lot of information. The J was one of Lionel's first Railsound II locomotives(first in the 1995 catalog with 611, then this one in 96), Neil Young was fresh on board with the company, and from what I remember he had people involved in making it the best they could at the time. They did record 611 shortly before excursion "retirement" in 1994. From what I remember, the article talked about how at the time, 611 had been run hard in excursion service and sounded very "tired." If I'm remembering this article correctly, they cleaned up the tracks for #611, but the #600 Warhorse is representative of how the locomotive actually sounded in 1994. Bearing in mind that it's been 25+ years since I read this article, I seem to remember that recording even sort of being the inspiration for making this model.

Sid which older lionel engines can be converted over to legacy system?

I've had my hands on these but never installed one.Isn't Electric RR out of business? I put aan N&W 746 together from parts and would like to put TMCC in it somehow.

Excellent video and explanation of the SoundTraxx system. Enjoyed the video and have kept it for future reference. I have a Right of Way KK-2 engine and wanted to find out if the system you have works on it.

Wow amazing custom model

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Thanks, Sid. After mulling over a Blunami upgrade for several months, I finally bought a 4408 and am installing it in an MTH PRR K4 that, basically turned into a really good looking doorstop due to failure of the MTH electronics. I went ahead and wired a bridge rectifier and a linear regulator into the K4 and it runs great. But, no smoke, no sounds and no reversing. I reluctantly bought the Blunami board because it solves all the problems except for smoke, specifically puffing smoke with even an inconsistent synch with the drivers. So it is great that you are talking about doing a video on adding that feature but, because of several comments on this post, I don't think many people understand what that means. You can't just add control of the smoke unit to the 4408, it just isn't that simple. And the 4408 does not have enough power to directly drive a smoke unit. Among the problems to solve are 1) how do you make the smoke unit "PUFF" at a rate that is similar to the rate of puff sounds coming from the decoder? Or, 2) is there a simple way to sense (opto or magnetic sensor, flywheel hash marks???) the position and rpm of the drivers for use in triggering the smoke unit fan? Is there some way to use such a sensing system as an input to the 4408 to synchronize with the puffing sound coming from the 4408? If you work out most of this, do you even need the 4408 to run a smoke unit that, like the sound output of the 4408 "approximates" how the smoke unit should operate? Smoke was one major thing that distinguished the post-war train hobby. I think it still is. All of the sophisticated electronics in modern engines are great but, to many of us, as these things turn into more doorstops, solutions such as the Blunami 4408 are the path forward. Without smoke, there is a void in toy train operation. As I progress with my modifications on my K4, I will be happy to share anything I work out but I think may of us would greatly appreciate anything you could do to advance this technology. Again, thanks for your videos. They are great!

0:41 I got that same model of the Lionel Trains Inc C&O 490 great engine great whistle. Mine though is pulling the C&O 4 pack heavyweights and 711 and derby club heavyweights.

Nice switcher engine I got the N&W 266 road name variant and won it on an ebay auction for about $180 or so dollars, easily 3.5 times less than its MSRP. I use it as my main switcher engine in the yards and even on short local runs to various industries (as they did IRL in the 1950s).

Say, you said your turbine can pull lots of cars, but in this video, you only were pulling 7? 😢 alotta cars? Can you give it in numbers? 🤔 🧐

Can you try to move the bell just a little bit higher because the train looks a little wonky with it being lower than the Funnel.

Hello, when you said "his loss, my gain" in its messed up state, might I ask what you initially paid for the beautiful model? ❤ 😊

My favorite 4-8-4 is the NYC Niagara!... it's just BIG! 😮 😊

You had a slope back tender on the thumpnail! But the slopeback wasn't what you worked on! The slopeback was why i watched the video!!! 😮

Wait, I thought LEDs were DC only? Are your trains running on AC, or DC? 🤔

What's the minimum radius your hudson can negotiate? 🤔

Well, the whistle smoke was impressive, initially, but the smoke seemed to disappear the longer the whistle blew! 😊

Sid, would you have tried to get it running or worked on it if the gears were jammed full of rust? 😮🤔

It’s definitely my future in model railroading. For me, the big benefit is ripping out the third rail…

I actually saw another guy do this. To get the pilot and sunken in head-light, he took the 3D model from the polar express gamecube game and 3D printed those parts.