Following the addition of locomotive sounds for the Carlin yard switcher, I have now added sound for the Lovelock local road switcher in Battle Mountain.
The Halliburton Barite processing building was the perfect place to install one of the 8 ohm, 3 watt speakers that I have been using on the layout. It is in about the center of the Battle Mountain industrial district.
The decoder used was a Soundtraxx Econami designed for an HO Scale Atlas Diesel. I glued an empty plastic prescription bottle under the bench work to hold the decoder in place. The sound quality and volume from this decoder is quite impressive and it has more choices for programming to match the type of locomotive being modeled so I've been fine tuning those settings.
A control panel similar to the one in Carlin was created for this new decoder in Battle Mountain. An additional decoder has been ordered and that one will be for road switcher sounds in Carlin where the speaker and control panel are already installed.
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