DCC/Sound Addition: Atlas PRR SD35

[@patmccarthy1624]

Challenges abound with those Atlas units! Great job overcoming the speaker problem! I always enjoy your lessons! Thanks, Rob!

[@michaelmcdougall4527]

Hello Steve, I love your comments and your sense of humor, but I would recommend going with a scale sound speaker you’d be much happier with the sound . Thanks

[@jeffwhite3679]

Good video. I went through a similar ordeal fitting a KA4 and adding ground lights to a conversion of an Atlas HH660 to an HH600. I finally got everything tucked in and the shell snapped down. Hoping I never have to open it up again. You're right, it's often not as easy as it looks on KZbin.

[@adriengadson3544]

Hello Steven, that speaker is a low end speaker from china.. Anyway you can hook the leads to a 1.5 battery. Then watch the positive and negative leads. The speaker should be pushing outwards in the correct phase first. Then you know what's positive and negative. Then just series them together to get a higher impedance. Also I mark the trucks with a F or B on the bottoms to keep from mixing them up. It seems like everyone in doing a Sd 35 now. I am too , an Atlas in N scale with China. You also could put the speakers in parallel, this lowers the ohms and may sound better here. Those speakers should not need that may amps to power them so it sound be fine that way. If they are 8 ohms they will show a 4 ohm in parallel. Anyway I enjoyed the video as usual.

[@Keiths_Trains_N_Stuff]

An incredible accomplishment.

[@stephenwhite546]

Job well done . . Sounds good . Your persistency paid off.

[@johnscherer1922]

hey mr. bennett, it's the return of the nut from n.h. boomer diorama has a nifty way to seal up your speaker compartment. i think it's atlas gp40-2w episode. also west coast rail has an episode titled improving genisis speaker sound, or something like that. you might want to check them out. as always, keep up the good work. john

[@154Colin]

Not sure if your wheelhouse leans in that direction, but you could "modify" the existing Atlas speaker enclosure and a ESU sugar cube speakers. The modeler on YT - who goes by Boomer - has a locomotive using a ESU V5 decoder running 4 speakers, 2 pairs (each pair running in parallel) and tied together is series, = 8 ohms. I hope I have that right..

[@PeterTillman3]

Nice job 👍

[@Vman7757]

Thank you for sharing.

[@randydobson1863]

hello The Bennett Model Railroad & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks The Bennett Model Railroad &Friends & Randy

[@hirsutusi5536]

I'm surprised the speakers didn't fit backwards.

[@FKHTrump2024]

Scalesound makes a drop in speaker for that locomotive, those 30mm a frame speakers are very harsh sounding but very loud. If you change your mind the SS sound way smoother and deeper bass. Nice install though.

[@robbennett1965]

DAMN! You are correct- I must have overlooked that when I was doing this. Well, if I ever decide to change the speakers I know what to get. Thanks for letting me know!

[@joeraderblackrockcentralrr]

SOUNDS OK TO ME

[@conrailfan6277]

Nice work Rob!! I feel your dilemma of wanting a cool Locomotive for the layout but doesn't fit your era, I'm modeling Conrail in the Mid 80s and I love the SD MAC and the Conrail Quality paint but I've had to stick to the SD50s and 60s with the standard cabs and the 8-40CWs in wide cab and standard as the newest Locomotives in my roster!! That SD35 will look good though tied up to some GP9s!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@robbennett1965]

I know what your talking about. My view- this is just a hobby, so I am doing what I want!

[@shed66215]

A couple of NS units lurking in the background, are they units that your Stephen has worked on? Come here for the entertainment and self effacing commentary, as much as for the modelling - great job Rob.

[@robbennett1965]

YES! Steve has run in both units (well, not exact numbers but same model) as well as an SD40-2. So I had to get them for the layout. Yeah, "had to"... 🙂

[@shed66215]

@@robbennett1965 Any excuse to have 'another' model that doesn't quite fit 🤣

[@Jeremiaha284]

Is this the 50's or 1969? Gonna go forward in time. How bought some 1960 cars and a Focal Orange PRR N8.

[@CrazyBob1357]

I’m back

[@oliverrr7587]