LOL!! Takara Tomy Pla-rail train with ESU Loksound M4(Marklin) from ICE !! :D

[Nozomi4ever]

Hello there ,

I would to share with you that something is possible now. This person adds the Loksound decorders of an ICE 3 and puts it into the Tomy JR 500 Toy train and runs on Marklin tracks and yes the sound is ICE 3! Don't you think its silly to do such things. Haha!!   :laugh:

[CaptOblivious]

Sound aside, using DCC to control a Pla-Rail train strikes me as something of an interesting engineering feat—and totally ridiculous. Nice find.

[westfalen]

I picked up a couple of radio control units for Tomy trains while I was in Japan. The normal D size battery in the train is replaced by a radio receiver unit containing two AAA batteries, there are four channels and receivers can be set to any channel by switching them off and back on. You get two forward speeds in each of three (slow, normal and shinkansen) gears plus reverse as well as sound effects like horn and a station departure melody. I can't give any more details as my nephew has had them since I brought them back.

[Nozomi4ever]

Sound aside, using DCC to control a Pla-Rail train strikes me as something of an interesting engineering feat—and totally ridiculous. Nice find.

 

No. It 's not DCC. It 's three-rail Marklin Digital System..

[KenS]

Hmm.  An ICE sounds a little like an E231... and the decoder would fit... this could be interesting.

[Nozomi4ever]

Hmm.  An ICE sounds a little like an E231... and the decoder would fit... this could be interesting.

 

Here is what the ICE will run like when fitted with this decorder.

 

BTW , a Japanese Railfan told me that some trains in Japan used the so called Siemens Inverter sound so I am not surprised that you said the sound is similar. (Some good examples. Hope you enjoy them.. :) )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSP9LDUo-aY&feature=related

[KenS]

Well that third video's a bit odd; I don't think I want my trains to sound like the Stylistics. 

 

But thanks for posting.

 

The first video gives a good example of the sound in a model (although the original PLA RAIL video did too).

 

On reflection, the E231/E531 is a subtler sound, as heard starting about 1:00, and particularly at 4:15 and 8:20, in this first video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAK_B21C0Q

and in

 

Loksound's BR420 is probably a bit closer. It's down near the bottom of the list of available sounds on this page:

 

http://www.esu.eu/en/downloads/sounds/generation-3/loksound-v35/electric/

 

According to Japanese Wikipedia your friend is right, the E501 in that first video uses a Siemens VVVF/GTO inverter. But while the E231 is also VVVF, it's a Mitsubishi ("commuter") or Hitachi ("suburban", probably the dual AC/DC trains) unit.

[Nozomi4ever]

According to Japanese Wikipedia your friend is right, the E501 in that first video uses a Siemens VVVF/GTO inverter. But while the E231 is also VVVF, it's a Mitsubishi ("commuter") or Hitachi ("suburban", probably the dual AC/DC trains) unit.

 

 

How I wish the Japanese commuter trains will sound like this.. (This is the railway music   )

The Spanish AVE S-103 have the almost same sound as the ICE 3...  

 

BTW,the E233 is a nice train but it sounds so dull!

 

Hope you Enjoy again.. :)

[KenS]

That Taurus sounds very nice.

 

And yeah, the E23x/E53x aren't very exciting-sounding trains.